Nurses Home at Crossley East Hospital

This nurses' home, built in 1902, forms part of the charitable Crossley East Hospital, funded by the Crossley family of Manchester and opened by Mabel Gordon Crossley. The building is constructed of red brick with terracotta dressings and pebbledash panels on the upper floors, and has a hipped plain tile roof with prominent coped stacks. It is designed in a Renaissance Revival style. The property is three storeys high, plus a basement and attics, and has a twelve-window front arranged as a symmetrical pattern of 2/3/1/3/2/1 bays. It features sill and impost bands and dentillated eaves to the bay windows. Most of the windows are original, with glazing bars, casements, and sashes. Ground floor windows are cross-mullioned with terracotta mullions and surrounds.

The central bay is slightly projecting, with a shaped gable containing a round window. This bay features a cross-mullioned window of three lights on each floor, becoming progressively taller, with the second-floor window featuring a round arched centre light. To either side, square terracotta bay windows are fitted with cornices and ramped parapets. To the right, stone steps with a wrought iron railing lead to a half-glazed door with a fanlight, flanked by cross casements. To the left, there's an S-light window with a central fanlight, and further cross casements. Above, the upper floors have three windows each, with an additional second-floor window to the left. A box dormer with three lights, surmounted by a segmental pediment, is present above.

A projecting square bay features a canted bay window on the ground floor, and two windows on each upper floor. The entrance bay to the right has a recessed terracotta doorway flanked by columns, the one to the right being paired, and topped by a cornice and segmental pediment. This is approached by steps with balustrade walls and moulded copings and contains a half-glazed door with sidelights and a fanlight. The returns are three bays wide, with a projecting centre featuring a half-glazed door, sidelights and fanlight, flanked by single windows, all with segmental heads. The rear of the building includes an off-centre wing, L-plan sanitary towers at each end, and regular fenestration.

The interior features a spinal corridor with chamfered segmental arches and coved ceilings. A stone cantilevered open well staircase with a wrought iron balustrade in an Arts & Crafts style provides access to the upper floors. The second-floor recreation room has exposed queen post trusses. Most rooms retain their original six-panel doors and overlights.