Middlewood Hospital Kingsway Ward

This is a former youth asylum, now disused, dating to 1878. It was likely designed by Bernard Hartley, City Surveyor, who also designed the main hospital building between 1869 and 1871. Originally known as the Yorkshire Youth Asylum, the building is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs, featuring coped gables and grouped octagonal ridge stacks.

The building is three storeys plus attics, arranged in an eleven by seven bay layout. The windows are predominantly glazing bar sashes; those on the ground and first floors have stone mullions. The front elevation is symmetrical, with a projecting central section flanked by towers, and large canted bays at each end. The central section, with a 1/3/1 window arrangement, is defined by shallow pilasters and topped by a coped gable and cross. A moulded, pointed arch frames a recessed pointed arched doorway with sidelights. The second floor has double windows in the side bays, set behind balustrades. Above the central window is a pointed arched recess containing a datestone and a ribbon inscribed "Yorkshire Youth Asylum." The square flanking towers have corbelled fourth stages with Venetian Gothic cross-mullioned windows, topped with two-stage pyramidal roofs featuring louvres and wind vanes. Paired octagonal side wall stacks are visible on the sides.

The left-hand range features an off-centre canted bay window; the right-hand range includes a square stair tower with a pyramidal roof. The hipped end bays have an increasing number of windows on each floor and ridge finials. Returns feature paired side wall stacks. The left return has two canted bay windows and a hipped stair tower. At the rear, a central gable with mullioned windows is flanked by sanitary towers, with a longer gabled wing on the right.

The interior remains largely original, with institutional alterations. It follows a conventional asylum plan; a central spinal corridor features a moulded cornice. Single rooms open off the corridor, with segment arched openings leading to sanitary annexes. A pair of day rooms are located at the south-east end, featuring segment-headed glazed screens and doors. The building contains laminated wooden span beams supported on complex cast iron columns. A smaller room at the north-west end, possibly an infill, displays similar construction and an internal stair. The first floor mirrors this plan, with large dormitories at each end. One room at the north-west end contains four single rooms with heavy window shutters and overlights to the doors, and a full-width room divided by a wall with pointed arched openings.