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Wick, Cliff Road, Rosebank House

Hospital (20th Century), House (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Wick, Cliff Road, Rosebank House

Classification Hospital (20th Century), House (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Henderson Memorial Building; Henderson Memorial Nursing Home; Henderson Memorial Hospital; Caithness General Hospital

Canmore ID 100211

Site Number ND35SE 127

NGR ND 36150 50848

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Wick
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Architecture Notes

ND35SE 127 36150 50848

Rosebank House was situated in the angle of Station Road and Bankhead Road.

Georgian in date, two storeys high, slated roof with an attic and constructed in whinstone rubble. Two bow windows to the symmetrical front dated abot 1800 with one and a half storey rear wings.

Converted to the Henderson Memorial Hospital in c.1930 by Sinclair MacDonald and Son, Architects , but with few alterations to the original appearance. The original building has been attributed to Thomas Telford.

The building was demolished post-1980 and the new Caithness General Hospital built on the site.

Rosebank is depicted as roofed on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness, 1877, sheet xxv) and also on the 25-inch scale OS map (ibid), the latter showing a large formal garden of about 0.53 hectares with sundial (SD) and summerhouse (SH). The house is described in the Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey (ONB).

Visited by RCAHMS (MH), April 1979; Information from RCAHMS (DE), January 2008.

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