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Stobhill Hospital was built as a Poor Law hospital in 1900-04 and is one of only a handful of remaining large complexes built specifically to care for the poor. The Administration Building, and the water tower (behind) are Category B listed http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB33290, http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB33289.

Stobhill Hospital was built as a Poor Law hospital in 1900-04 and is one of only a handful of remaining large complexes built specifically to care for the poor. The Administration Building; and the water tower (left) are Category B listed https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB33290, https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB33289.

The older, now disused, B Listed original part of the hospital complex. A new building has been opened a few yards away.

The Category B listed https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB33289 water tower incorporates a clock face on each side. It adjoins a store and kitchen block and they were built 1900-1904 by the Glasgow architects firm of Thomson and Sandilands. They are in the Buildings at Risk Register https://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/details/935098.

With the clock tower in the background. Within the Stobhill Hospital campus.

A B Listed structure, built in 1904.

As described in "Stobhill Hospital – The First Seventy Years" (O.M.Watt, 1971), 47 acres from Stobhill Estate had, by the end of 1899, been purchased for £6000 as a site for the new hospital. A competition was held in order to select the architects; though Thomson and Sandilands did not win, their design was used. The contractors gave the estimate of £163,341 for the building work, which proceeded rapidly; the foundation stone (at the base of the clock tower) was laid in September of 1901, and the work was completed by 1903, although there were to be later additions to the site. The official opening was in 1904. For far more complete details, see the work just cited. For further information, and for other views of the tower, see Image and Image Compare Image

The 2009 building which replaced the original 1904 buildings was designed by Reiach and Hall and was voted the world's best hospital of its size in the 2010 Design and Health International Academy Awards.

The 2009 building which replaced the original 1904 buildings was designed by Reiach and Hall and was voted the world's best hospital of its size in the 2010 Design and Health International Academy Awards.