[3] It was renamed the Aberdeen Royal Lunatic Asylum in 1852[1] and a new hospital for sick and acute cases was built to the north of the existing facility in 1896.

[3] Pavilions for the treatment of tuberculosis were added in the 1920s[3] and the facility became the Aberdeen Royal Mental Hospital in 1933.

[3] The facility joined the National Health Service in 1948 and became the Royal Cornhill Hospital in 1964.

[3] In 2013 the Health and Safety Executive issued an official warning that risk assessments at the hospital for patients in danger of self harming were insufficient, after three suicides.

[4] In 2015 proposals were put forward to redevelop part of the site which was surplus to requirements for residential use.