Dormer Parkhursts Hospital

Dormer Parkhurst's Hospital is a Grade II listed building originally built as almshouses in 1761, as noted on an inscribed plaque. The structure is made of brick and features a mid-20th century concrete tiled hipped roof with three ridge stacks. It is a single-storey building with projecting wings on both the left and right sides. The front has a symmetrical arrangement of four mid-20th century doors and four mid-20th century casement windows. The windows in the wings are set in their original openings, while those in the center have been enlarged with brick voussoirs extended over them. There is a blocked doorway on the inner face of each side wing. The plaque indicates that the hospital was founded for six widows or unmarried women over the age of fifty by Dormer Parkhurst Esq., Master of Greatham Hospital, in the year 1761.