Walton Hospital (Original Building Only)

SJ 39 NE RICE LANE L9

1/964 Walton Hospital (original building only) 14.3.75. G.V. II

Workhouse, now hospital, 1868. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof. 3 storeys, 56 bays. 3-bay projecting centre with 23 bays to left, 22 bays to right and 4 x 4-bay end pedimented pavilions. 1st floor sill band and top modillioned cornice. Pavilions have rusticated quoins. Windows have cut-brick flat arches with stone keys, those to 2nd floor are segmental-headed. Most are sashed with glazing bars. Centre has sill bands, quoin strips and top frieze and cornice. Projecting centre bay of stone with channelled rustication forms base of tower and has 2-storey canted bay window with central pediment. Flanking bays have 1st floor windows with round tympana and banded arches. Entrances in porches have round heads, consoled pediments and parapets. Tower has 3 tall recesses on each side, the lower parts louvred. 4-face clock in stone surrounds with flanking colonnettes and banded pointed arches. Top frieze with roundels, cornice and pierced parapet. Swept pavilion roof has lucarnes and iron cresting. Flanking ranges have 4 entrances, now windows, with angle pilasters, friezes and cornices; a further 2 now replaced by connecting corridors. 6 square louvres with ogival caps. Later extensions.

Listing NGR: SJ3572995340