Basic Site Details | Name: | Lochhead Hydropathic | | City or county: | Aberdeen | | Country: | Scotland | | Parish: | | | Status: | Demolished | | Grid ref: | | | Notes: | Situated about a mile from Aberdeen. Spacious Turkish Bath 'just completed' - 60 feet long. Other baths on the 'most approved plans'. House surrounded by pleasure grounds. 40 patients.
His brief, he said, was ‘to produce a certain accommodation at the very smallest outlay’ and his plan was ‘based upon the baths of ancient Rome’.
Lecture by William Hardie Hay to Liverpool Architectural Society, 1861.
His brief, he said, was ‘to produce a certain accommodation at the very smallest outlay’ and his plan was ‘based upon the baths of ancient Rome’.
'I have adopted the Turkish or oriental style of architecture with a touch of Eastern grandeur, so that the Turkish Baths might not be altogether a misnomer to the uninitiated; nevertheless, there is a very large demand made upon the practical skill and experience of an architect in the erection of works of this kind. But I was employed to design Turkish baths, and Turkish baths they must be; to arrange the interior as I pleased; but the bulbous domes and gilded minarets must appear in all the cheapest and most showy style, so that the Oriental character might be realised as freshly as from a perusal of Lalla Rookh. I should be inclined, however, to recommend a thoroughly English style of architecture as decidedly preferable to this.' | Building Type Classification| The building is classified under the following categories: | | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes |  | Hydropathic | | |
Events| The following date-based events are associated with this building: | | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1860 | 1861 | Build/construction | | | October 1861 | | Completion | |
PeopleDesign and Construction| The 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 | | William Hardie Hay | | A | 1860 | 1861 | |
ReferencesBibliographic References| The following books contain references to this building: | | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Durie, Alastair | 2006 | Water is Best: the Hydros and Health Tourism in Scotland 1840-1940 | | John Donald | p36 | | Shifrin, Malcolm | | http://www.victorianturkishbath.org | | | http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/AtoZEstab/Hydros/AbHydroLock/AbHydroLockEng.htm | | Shifrin, Malcolm | 2015 | Victorian Turkish Baths | | Historic England | pp141, 172, 216. Illustration |
Periodical References| The following periodicals contain references to this building: | | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Builder | 16 February 1861 | | | Hay, W H 'Liverpool Architectural Society: lecture on Turkish baths' p.106 | | Building News | February 1861 | | | | | Dundee Courier | 13 November 1860 | | | | | Dundee Courier | 9 September 1861 | | | |
Archive References| The following archives hold material relating to this building: | | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Information from Malcolm Shifrin via website | Information from Malcolm Shifrin | | Sent March 2013 |
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