October 2000: Listed Building Consent is sought for the mixed use development of the site.
These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields. )I was there last Thursday. SC045925These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s).
The hall was large enough to take 400 patients and staff, and could be used as a theatre, cinema or dance hall as well as for less formal gatherings. This took some years to accomplish, and the hospital only finally closed in 2000. Report - Craig Dunain Hospital - 30 photos from Summer 2003. Whittet had previously worked with Dr. Alan MacDougall at Gartnaval Hospital, who had taken a great interest in AA and the effect on alcoholics.Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:Then the first female member (Catherine), used her connections to allow the use of the Cathedral Hall on Kenneth Street.As part of the important measures to guard against the hazards of fire, the asylum was constructed with a series of barriers, 80 to 90 feet apart, consisting of a thick, stone party wall with iron sliding doors to allow access from one section to another, but which could be drawn closed in the event of fire.What a shame – and such a waste. Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.To E and W of central range symmetrical ward blocks 5-1-7-1, the single bays projecting and gabled with 3-light, 3-storey projecting windows on inner bay, 2-windows on outer, tall pyramidal roofed towers attached to latter.The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Listed Building (B) 8037: Craig Dunain Hospital; Images (15) Show captions I think my cousins husband Fraser may have contacted you already but it would be great to find out more about our family in Canada as I know that there are Clunas’s there. The former hospital is a Category B listed building.. History. A map of Dunain Community Woods.
In 1843 a committee was established to promote the erection of a lunatic asylum at Inverness for the Northern Counties and in 1845 the movement gained Royal favour and would have produced the eighth Royal Asylum in Scotland. I have some pictures if you would like to get in touch I can send some on. James Munro appeared to suffer badly from his wounds and was hospitalised in 1870. The chapel looks as if it could be saved, and would make a good community space. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.Historic Environment Scotland is the lead public body established to investigate, care for and promote Scotland's historic environment.Additional 2-and 1-storey ranges with variety of bay windows and squareListed building consent is required for changes to a listed building which affect its character as a building of special architectural or historic interest. His health deteriorated and he died in Craig Dunain Hospital in 1871, aged 45. This was to the south of institution, screened from view by a belt of trees.The laundry, farm-offices and gas works were situated away from the main building.
The stone used was rubble whinstone and dressed stone from Tarradale on the Black Isle. Gabled wings project at rear.
About Listed Buildings. Inserted into this booklet is a newspaper cutting about the closure of the hospital and a photocopied article about photographs of the hospital. XxFollowing a visit to the only group in Perth, membership began to increase in Inverness. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Craig Dunain Hospital was a mental health facility near Inverness in Scotland. The first medical superintendent was Dr Aitken, who was accommodated in a ‘commodious and pleasantly-situated house near the Asylum’.
... Press reports note that the hospital has been earmarked for closure. Today, many of these buildings now lie empty and abandoned, except of course, for the lost souls who have remained within their rotting walls, lingering on waiting to be seen.There are those who believe these ancient asylums and hospitals are haunted because the dead can’t leave the horrors they experienced in life behind.The Lima Tuberculosis Hospital in Allen County, Ohio closed its doors for a final time in 1972 and has since been left abandoned.