Hospital
Architectural Description from National Heritage List Text Entries, © Historic England 2021.
Cottage Hospital, converted to Employees’ Training Centre and now (1985) a rest home. 1907. Pebble-dash with brick dressings, slate roof with tile ridge. 2 storeys with one- storey wings. Brick quoin blocks, top cornices. Windows mostly sashed with glazing bars. Garden front has central wing ending in pavilion with end projecting hipped bays, centre with small-paned glazing, elliptical-headed lights and entrance. Flanking 2 bays have ground floor canted bay windows with small-paned casements. Flanking 3-bay wings canted forward, with octagonal louvred cupolas, further 4- bay lower wings canted forward with large small-paned glazed doors and steps. 6 stacks with brick caps. Rear has centre projecting under pedimented gable with later projection of 4 bays, windows with gauged-brick flat arches and sashes, hipped dormers with 2-light casements, entrance has architrave, pilasters, frieze and consoled cornice, complete overlight and 4-panel doors. Flanking wings have end gabled projections, canted bays with lights in angles, returns have canted projections to gable-end stacks; end 4 bays have lunettes in round-headed recesses. Main entrance to right return of centre has consoled round hood, paired 2-panel doors and flanking stained glass light. Further later extension to left of centre.