Wentworth Hospital With Attached Front Railings Comprising School House, School Room, Attached Almshouses To Rear, Railings To Roadside

Wentworth Hospital, which includes an attached front railing, consists of a school house, a school room that has been converted into two dwellings, and unoccupied almshouses located at the rear. This building dates from the early to mid-18th century and was constructed for the Wentworth estate. It features red brick in English garden wall bond and stone slate roofs.

The hospital has a symmetrical 11-bay facade with 12 almshouses forming a quadrangle at the back. The front range is two stories high, while the almshouses are single-story. There is a gauged-brick archway leading to a central passage, which is currently supported by timber shoring. On the right side of the archway, there is a 20th-century part-glazed door flanked by old casement windows with horizontal glazing bars. To the left of the archway, there are five windows, all with 20th-century top-hung casements featuring glazing bars. A continuous three-course brick band runs along the first floor. Above the archway, there is an unequally-hung 9-pane sash window, with shorter windows on the right side and renewed 9-pane casements on the left. All windows are topped with flat brick arches. A four-course eaves band runs continuously across the central one-bay gable, which has an oculus. The gables are adorned with shaped kneelers and ashlar copings, and a small timber bellcote sits on the ridge of the central gable. There are end stacks and a central ridge stack.

In the quadrangle, each dwelling has a part-glazed door flanked by casements, with only No. 1 retaining any original fenestration. Nos. 5 and 8, located in the corners, are lit from the rear. The central passageway through the rear range features a three-course eaves band and a coped gable that bears an oval stone panel carved with the Wentworth insignia, along with the inscription 'WENTWORTH HOSPITAL' and a date that appears to read '1765'.

Inside, the almshouses still have some 18th-century doors with original ironwork. The iron railings at the front are set in a round-coped stone plinth wall, featuring octagonal bars and a simple top rail, with a matching gate on the right. On the left, the railings end at a 20th-century brick gate pier. There are various additions to the rear of the almshouses that are not of special interest.