Ancoats Hospital

SJ 87 NW GREAT WARFORD C.P. ANCOATS ROAD

7/21 Ancoats Hospital

GV II

Hospital. 1903. Red brick with stone dressings and slate roof. 2 storeys and attic. Entrance front to courtyard. 11 bays in a 4.3.4 rhythm. Stone plinth with ground and first floor casement windows of 4 x 5 panes. Central projecting gabled wing with ½ storey high stone walls to ground floor and double doors to centre with 3 x 4 pane casement windows to either side. Overhang to first floor which is of white stucco with central casement window of 3 lights of 2 x 4 panes each site of a carved oak canopy and surrounding a statue of a draped female figure and children. Row of corbels above supporting another overhang with gable windows of 3 casement lights each of 2 x 2 panes. Roundel to apex with raised lettering, A.D.1903. Square ridge and purlin plates. Octagonal bell-cote over with a fleche. Projecting 2-storey wings at either side projecting by one bay and ending as angled bays to both floors: these continue as glazed corridors at ground floor level and terminate in pavilions with diagonal buttresses (with stone seats between), which have casement windows of 4 lights each of 3 x 3 panes with dormer lunette windows above to 3 sides. Angled walls project from the buttresses and end in brick piers with stone caps and balls. Inscription to central door lintel: PAX INTRANTI: SALUS EXEUNTI. Rear facade has central wing with gable dormers to sides in pairs and lateral gabled staircase wings.

Listing NGR: SJ8054677513