Crossley East Hospital

Crossley East Hospital, Kingswood Park, Manley

This tuberculosis hospital was built between 1902 and 1904 as a charitable foundation sponsored by the Crossley family of Manchester. It has been subject to alterations and additions from the mid and late 20th century.

The building is constructed in red brick with terracotta dressings and pebbledash panels in various colours. It features plain tile hipped roofs with finials and coped stacks. The main structure comprises three storeys plus attics, with 23 windows arranged in the pattern 1/4/1/4/3/4/1/4/1, and is designed in the Renaissance Revival style. Windows are predominantly wooden cross casements with glazing bars in the top lights, though some have been partly reglazed within the original openings.

The main block is arranged in a symmetrical E-plan, with a central external corridor at the rear connecting it to cruciform ancillary buildings housing the chapel, dining room and kitchens. An L-plan open air ward is linked to the east end of the main block by a covered way.

The central entrance bay is the focal point, with a plinth, sill bands and dentillated eaves cornice beneath a shaped polychrome gable topped by an octagonal domed turret with louvred openings and finial. A projecting centre features a dentillated segmental pediment with enriched tympanum. Below stands a square terracotta porch with rusticated columns and pierced balustrade, containing a half-glazed door with fanlight and sidelights flanked by single windows in matching style. Above this, a cross-casement is flanked by single windows beneath segmental arches with keystones. On the upper floor, a segment-arched recess contains a shaped stone balcony with wrought iron railing, flanked by single windows. The gable contains an 8-light casement with round arched centre light and label mould.

The inner and outer side bays each contain four windows, alternating narrow and wide, with segmental heads and keystones to the lower floors. The attics feature box dormers with three lights and segmental pediments.

Intermediate square bay windows are detailed similarly to the centre, with half-glazed doors and sidelights. Above, on each floor, are three-light mullioned windows with the upper lights featuring a cross mullion and round arched central light. The projecting end bays contain semicircular bay windows across three storeys with sill bands and dentillated cornices. The lower lights are plain sashes, reglazed, with glazing bar overlights.

The return elevations each have four windows, with a square cross-mullioned bay window to the ground floor and, offset to the right, a canted bay window across two storeys.

The rear elevation features a projecting centre with a Diocletian window in the pediment, sanitary towers with projecting centres, and canted bay windows in the side bays. To the east of the centre is a canted single storey addition housing the operating theatre.

A gabled corridor of six bays contains glazing bar cross casements and a late 20th century entrance on the west side.

The chapel to the east spans four bays, with plinth, pedimented buttresses and eaves cornice, topped by a late 20th century flat roof behind a coped parapet with pedestals. The south side has four segment-headed cross casements with glazing bars, while the north side has two. The unbuttressed canted east end features a central enriched datestone inscribed 1902 and a pedestal topped with a cross. On each side is a segment arched window in Perpendicular style, formerly containing stained glass.

The dining room to the west spans five bays. Its south side contains two square projecting bays with cross-mullioned French windows alternating with similar smaller windows, above which is a box dormer with nine lights. The west gable displays three French windows, the central one larger, with a roundel in the gable.

A double range kitchen block has two gables to the west; the southern gable features a canted bay window while the northern gable is covered by a late 20th century flat roofed addition. The eastern range has a clerestory roof. The storage block bears late 20th century alterations to its windows.

The open-air ward is L-plan with glazed verandahs on the north and south sides of the west wing, featuring three segment arched openings to the south, now blocked. The cross wing has a semicircular bay window with glazing bars to the south and two canted bay windows to the east. A covered way has a glass roof on wooden posts.

Interior features include a cruciform entrance hall in the main block with chamfered segmental arches and glazed tile dado. A glazed screen with half-glazed double doors fronts the main entrance. Plain staircases with flank walls feature similar dado detailing, as do the spinal corridor and upper floors. The dining room contains a principal rafter roof with arch braces, ceiled at collar level, and a segment arched arcade on the north side. The open-air ward has half-glazed folding doors on the south side of its west wing.