Craig House, or Old Craig House, was built in the 16th century. In the late 19th century, the estate was purchased by the Board of Managers of the ‘Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum’. Grand new buildings known as New Craig House were designed and constructed between 1889-1894. The architects are recorded in the Bedford Lemere daybook as Sydney, Mitchell and Wilson. The hospital was opened in 1894. It was known as ‘New Craig House Asylum’ or ‘Craig House Mental Asylum’, and later Craig House Hospital. In 1972 Old Craig House became the Thomas Clouston Clinic. The hospital closed in the early 1990s.
This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Photographer: Lemere, Henry Bedford: Bedford Lemere And Company
Drawing Room, Victorian Psychiatric Hospital