Queen's Jubilee Nurses Home

The Queen's Jubilee Nurses Home, dated 1897 and designed by architect Henry Lord, is a former nurses' home now serving as a library for the Working Class Movement. It is built of brick with terracotta dressings and features some mock timbering, all under a plain-tiled roof in a Neo-vernacular style.

The building has three storeys and an asymmetrical plan, with three gables facing The Crescent and the entrance located to the right of the center. The entrance front includes three wide gables and a narrow projecting gable above the entrance. A flat-roofed porch contains a round-arched doorway flanked by moulded pilasters and a brick mullioned window, topped by a balustraded parapet. Each floor above features three grouped sash windows, while the main gables have irregularly grouped sash windows and half-timbering at their apexes.

The return elevation to Acton Square is divided into three bays, with two gables on the right and a lower bay on the left that has paired sash windows on each floor. The central gable features an off-centre canted bay window on the ground floor, with a parapet that curves between terracotta finials, and paired sash windows above. A stack is located on the right of the gable, adorned with a cartouche displaying the date and fluted shafts. This gable connects to the right-hand gable via a narrow bay that has paired windows in an arched recess at ground level, with a balustraded parapet above. The first floor features two sash windows, one set at an angle to the gable. The right-hand gable includes a two-storey canted bay with a parapet that curves between terracotta finials, and three sash windows on the second floor above. Half-timbering is present in the gable apexes, and there are end wall stacks. The interior has not been inspected.