Jessop Hospital For Women

The Jessop Hospital for Women is a women’s hospital built in 1878 by John Dodsley Webster, commissioned by Thomas Jessop. A sympathetic addition was made to the west in 1902. It is constructed in the Gothic Revival style, primarily of brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs, featuring various coped brick stacks. The building takes the form of an L-plan.

The exterior exhibits a plinth, sill and lintel bands, machicolated eaves, and coped gables. It is arranged over three storeys, with an eight-window range. Most windows are transomed or cross-mullioned, incorporating stone mullions. The front elevation is dominated by a central range of five windows, flanked by gabled wings. A slightly projecting central entrance bay is topped by a single-stage tower with a cornice and plain parapet, featuring two single lancet openings on each side, each with hoodmoulds. The first floor displays three cross casements flanked by single-light windows; above, the fenestration is similar, with an ogee crest to the central window. The ground floor features a round-arched entrance with double doors, an inscribed lintel, a label mould and a crest. Flanking the entrance are a cross casement and a single light window, each with label moulds and crests.

The left gable has a cross casement, with a taller cross casement above, featuring a traceried ogee head and finial. Below is a square bay window with a three-light cross casement. The right gable displays two cross casements, followed by two similar windows above with traceried ogee heads, with a roundel between them. Below, there are two three-light cross casements with label moulds and finials. The right return features a central projecting gabled bay; to the left is a two-storey square oriel window at the corner, topped with a pyramidal spire. The left return features two canted three-storey bay windows, the left one incorporating a large 20th-century flat-roofed bay window.

The west front includes an entrance block to the right, three storeys plus attics, with two windows in the center, flanked by gabled wings. A single-storey central porch with a parapet sits on the ground floor. To the left is a lower block with a coped parapet and a central projecting three-storey canted bay window topped with a balustrade, with two windows on either side. A two-storey square oriel window topped with a pyramidal spire is situated at the left corner. The left return showcases a canted three-storey bay window topped with a balustrade and two windows to the right.

The interior of the hospital was not inspected during the listing assessment.