Basic Site Details Name: | Glen Afton Sanatorium | Town, district or village: | New Cumnock | City or county: | Ayrshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | It is stated by experts that a heavy rainfall has no effect on consumptives during treatment and therefore the Ayrshire sanatorium is to be built on a 30 acre site 825 feet above sea level at Glen Afton, a very wet district on the border of the county at a cost of £2,000. Plans have been prepared. [British Architect 10 April 1903 Page 274]
Note The site chosen for the Ayrshire Consumptive Sanatorium was given as Cracow Glen, 800 feet above sea level in British Architect 10 April 1903 Page 273
Closed down. | Alternative NamesThe following alternative names are associated with this building/design: | | Name | Current name? | Notes |  | Ayrshire Consumptive Sanatorium | | |  | Glenafton Hospital | | |  | Glenafton Sanatorium | | |
Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes |  | Sanatorium | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes |  | 1904 | 1906 | Construction(?) | |  | June 1906 | | Opened | |  | 1909 | | | Extension |  | 1913 | | | Further extension |  | 10 October 1952 * | | Addition | Plans prepared for proposed verandah for TB patients |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes |  | Kelynack, T N (Ed) | 1914 | Tuberculosis Year Book and Sanatoria Annual, 1913-14 | | | pp291-2 |  | Love, Dane | 2005 | Lost Ayrshire | | Edinburgh: Birlinn | pp178-9 Illustration |  | Richardson, Harriet | N.D. | Scottish Hospitals Survey | | Unpublished typescript (copy in DMW Archive) | |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes |  | British Architect | 10 April 1903 | | | p273 - basic details, p274 |  | Builder | 10 October 1952 | | | p528 |  | Lancet | 14 July 1906 | | | p128 |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes |  | Ayrshire Archives (from February 2007) | Darley- Hay Partnership archive | | Plans |  | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | Thomas McGill Cassels: L v16 no 1175 |
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