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The former NURSES' HOME

Materials

Red brick with stone dressings (as shown on photographs taken in 1994: all windows are currently boarded up), and a tiled pitched roof with overhanging eaves and four axial ridge stacks in brick, and an external gable stack at its south end.

Plan

A five-bay rectangular plan. Based on an external inspection only, it is probably of double width with a central corridor running along its full length, and with a stairwell at its south end (near the nurses' entrance). The later 1930s wings extending from its north end and the wall extending from its south-east corner enclosing the courtyard are not of special interest.

Exterior

The front elevation has two projecting bays at either end with decorative timber barge-boards to the pitched roof, each with a carved crocodile to the centre. Each has a canted bay window at ground floor level with double-chamfered windows, with a square bay window with chamfered mullioned twin windows above, both with castellated parapets. The gables above the bays have decorative timber framing surrounding a central four-light, timber casement window. The three bays to the centre have stone mullioned windows to the ground floor with a just off-centre, round-arched entrance porch, with steps leading up to it. The first floor, now pebble-dashed replacing former tile-hanging, has six by two light timber casement windows to each bay, with four light flat-roofed dormers above, possibly inserted later.

The rear elevation is of similar design, though with only slightly projecting outer gables and two smaller gables to the centre, all with decorative timber barge boards and timber framing, matching that of the front elevation. The ground floor could not be seen, but the two outer gables have stone mullion windows at first floor level. Tile hanging to the first floor with attic above, with the remaining windows being a mixture of timber and metal casement windows.

The projecting south gable end, probably containing the stairwell with a room at the top floor, has a small two storey lean-two with a tiled roof to its left. It has a round-arched entrance to the ground floor (probably the nurses' entrance) with a stone mullion window to the above left and above to the right is a decorative stone plaque inscribed with the words: ‘This foundation stone inaugurating the extension and reconstruction of this hospital was laid by the Countess of Craven 26th July 1906 A Hessell Tiltman FRIBA Herbert W Chattaway Joint Architects'.

Interior

Could not be inspected.

The former OUTPATIENTS' CLINIC

Materials

Red brick with a tiled octagonal roof having overhanging eaves and terminating in a lead-covered, louvered ventilation fleche.

Plan

A central octagonal double-height waiting hall surrounded by single storey, projecting, flat-roofed clinics. To the south-east and south-west it has two late C20 single storey flat roofed annexes, linked to the main building by a covered walkway, which are not of special interest.

Exterior

The alternate sides of the octagonal waiting hall are lit by tall windows, with glazing bars and small square-leaded panes, which rise through the roof and terminate with hipped roofs and finials. The clinics have cambered arch sashes in moulded brick surrounds and wide, segmental-headed windows, and a continuous tile-capped blocking course. Original shaped rainwater heads and down-pipes.

Interior

Plain with doors leading off into the individual clinics and the original ventilation system surviving. Set in the wall surrounding the central hall, outside one of the individual clinic entrances, is a small drinking fountain. The hall contains a demountable mezzanine floor, installed in the late C20. The central ventilation fleche to the plastered dome rests on a circular cast iron ring with the name James Keith & Blackman.