Basic Site Details Name: | Hartwood Asylum | Town, district or village: | Shotts | City or county: | Lanarkshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | Demolished | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Cost of initial asylum building when opened in 1895 £152,430 . Nurses' home is C Listed. Work for which plans prepared in 1935 to cost £230,000 (this sum given in 'Builder' but maybe really £23,000?). Assessor of competition John Carrick. | Alternative NamesThe following alternative names are associated with this building/design: | | Name | Current name? | Notes |  | District Asylum for Lanark | | Alternative original name |  | Hartwood Hospital | Yes | |  | Hartwood Mental Hospital | | |  | Lanark District Asylum | | |  | Lanarkshire Mental Hospital | | |
Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes |  | Psychiatric hospital | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes |  | 1885 | | | Competition - 10 architects asked to prepare competitive plans |  | 1887 | | | Competition held but building did not proceed at that time |  | 1889 or 1890 | | Build/construction | Original building |  | 20 May 1895 | | Opened | |  | 1897 | 1898 | | Additions (2 large separate blocks to the rear of main building erected) |  | January 1897 | | Contracts advertised | For "Two blocks of cottages at Hartwood Asylum," architect not named |  | March 1897 | | Tenders submitted | Two blocks of cottages. Architect given as J Lamb Murray |  | 1904 | 1907 | | Sanatorium block added |  | 1906 | | | Sanatorium built -26 beds for the isolation of TB patients. |  | 1916 | | | New reception block |  | 1926 | 1931 | | Nurses home constructed and opened |  | 1926 | | Design exhibited | Nurses' home |  | 1935 | | | Plans prepared for various new blocks |  | 1936 | | Design exhibited | Male staff hostel |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes |  | Francis ('Frank') Stirrat | Architect | | 1885 | | Second premium in competition |  | David Barclay | Architect | C | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | H & D Barclay | Architectural practice | C | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | Hugh Barclay | Architect | C | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | Campbell Douglas | Architect, Valuer | D | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | Campbell Douglas & Sellars | Architectural practice | D | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | James Sellars | Architect, Valuer | D | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | Bruce & Hay | Architectural practice | E | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | Donald Bruce | Architect | E | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | Edward Alexander Buckingham Hay | Architect | E | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | (Sir) John James Burnet | Architect | F | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | John Burnet & Son | Architectural practice | F | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | John Burnet (senior) | Architect | F | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | Baldie & Tennant | Architectural practice | G | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | Robert Baldie | Architect | G | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | William Tennant | Architect | G | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | John Baird the Second | Architect | H | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | Boucher & Higgins | Architectural practice | I | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | Henry Higgins | Architect | I | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | Henry Edward Clifford | Architect | J | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | Landless & Clifford | Architectural practice | J | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | William Landless | Architect | J | 1885 | | Competition design, selected but not successful |  | Baird & Thomson | Architectural practice | Q | 1885 | | Unsuccessful competition design |  | James Thomson | Architect | Q | 1885 | | Unsuccessful competition design |  | John Lamb Murray | Architect | | 1889 or 1890(?) | 1897(?) | Appointed for job (though he was not one of the 10 architects asked to prepare plans for the 1885 competition) |  | Alexander Cullen | Architect | K | c. 1904 | c. 1907 | Sanatorium block added |  | Alexander Young | Architect | K | c. 1904 | c. 1907 | Sanatorium block added - working as assistant to Alexander Cullen |  | James Lochhead | Architect | K | c. 1904 | c. 1907 | Sanatorium block added |  | William Brown | Architect | K | c. 1904 | c. 1907 | Sanatorium block added |  | Cullen, Lochhead & Brown | Architectural practice | L | 1916 | | New reception block built |  | James Lochhead | Architect | L | 1916 | | New reception block |  | Cullen, Lochhead & Brown | Architectural practice | N | After 1925 | Before 1940 | Male staff hostel |  | Lockhart Whiteford Hutson | Architect | N | After 1925 | Before 1940 | Male staff hostel |  | Cullen, Lochhead & Brown | Architectural practice | M | 1926 | 1931 | Nurses' home |  | James Lochhead | Architect | M | 1926 | 1931 | Nurses' home |  | Lockhart Whiteford Hutson | Architect | M | 1926 | 1931 | Nurses' home |  | Cullen, Lochhead & Brown | Architectural practice | O | 1935 | | Plans prepared for various new blocks |  | James Lochhead | Architect | O | 1935 | | Plans prepared for various new blocks |  | Lockhart Whiteford Hutson | Architect | O | 1935 | | Plans prepared for various new blocks |  | Cullen, Lochhead & Brown | Architectural practice | P | 1936 | | Male staff hostel |  | James Lochhead | Architect | P | 1936 | | Male staff hostel |  | Lockhart Whiteford Hutson | Architect | P | 1936 | | Male staff hostel |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes |  | Lanark District Lunacy Board | For works in 1897 |  | Lanarkshire Mental Hospitals Joint Committee | |
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes |  | Darragh, Alison | 2011 | Prison or Palace? Heaven or Hell? An architectural and social study of the development of public lunatic asylums in Scot | | Unpublished PhD thesis, University of St Andrews | vol 2, pp 258-62 vol 3, pp 104-6 |  | Harper, Roger H | 1983 | Victorian Architectural Competitions: An Index to British and Irish Architectural Competitions… | | London: Mansell Publishing | |  | Richardson, Harriet | N.D. | Scottish Hospitals Survey | | Unpublished typescript (copy in DMW Archive) | Listed as Hartwood Hospital |  | Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts | 1926 | | | | 213 |  | Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts | 1932 | | | | 335 |  | Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts | 1936 | | | | 352 |  | Who's Who in Architecture | 1914 | | | | Reference to Bruce and Hay |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes |  | Architect | 26 March 1886 | | | Bruce & Hay designs entered under the name 'Health' (cost £98,984); Francis Stirrat designs entered under name 'Hartwood Hill' (£100,000); Landless & Clifford design enterted under name 'Isolation' (cost £120,000). Carrick recommended all three designs - the Board made the decision on cost. |  | Architect | 20 April 1888 | | | Bruce & Hay designs. Abandonment, result of change in membership of Board. Dansken measurer sought £1448, offered £1000. Bruce & Hay sought £3000, offered £2000. |  | Builder | 28 March 1885 | XLVIII | | p445 |  | Builder | 23 January 1897 | | | p88 - contracts open for two blocks of cottages at Hartwood Asylum |  | Builder | 6 March 1897 | | | p235 - tenders for two blocks of cottages. Lamb named as architect for this work |  | Builder | November 1935 | CXLIX | | p801 |  | Building News | 4 November 1887 | | | Campbell Douglas & Sellars' competition design |  | Evening Citizen | 14 May 1895 | | | |  | Hamilton Advertiser | 18 May 1895 | | | |  | Scotsman | 15 May 1895 | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes |  | Cullen Lochhead & Brown Architects | Cullen Lochhead and Brown Archive | | Drawings (dated 1927) L4 |  | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 49672 | Nurses' home |  | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 43858 | Hospital |  | Lanarkshire Health Board | Lanarkshire Health Board | | Hartwood Hospital Minutes from 1883 |  | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Scottish Survey of Architectural Practices Project MS material | | |  | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | Lockhart Whiteford Hutson: F no3785 (combined box 28); Alexander Young: L v21 no1697 |
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