The Roundhouse

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SK3488SW INFIRMARY ROAD 784-1/13/448 (South side) 08/09/70 The Roundhouse (Formerly Listed as: INFIRMARY ROAD Royal Infirmary (original block with south-east and south-west wings))

GV II

Outpatients' department, now offices. 1883-84, restored and converted c1988. By John Dodsley Webster. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and pyramidal slate roof topped with a domed octagonal lantern. Single storey wings have C20 flat asphalt roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storey octagonal central block has 2 round-arched glazing bar windows on each side, with plain stone surrounds with keystones and impost bands. North-east side has 3 similar windows and above them a large double side wall stack, now capped, with a recessed central panel with round-arched opening. On each side, single-storey wings of various lengths, with renewed 8 pane glazing bar sashes with stone surrounds and sillbands, several of them mullioned. Longest wing, to south-west, has two 8 pane sashes and to their right, a larger tripartite sash. North-west wing has a 4-columned Doric portico covering a C20 glazed double door with overlight. South-west wing has an entrance with panelled pilasters and heavy scroll brackets to corniced stone hood. On either side, a single window. INTERIOR refitted c1988, has panelled angle pilasters and cornice, with roundel panels above. Octagonal roof with wrought-iron lattice girders with monograms in the spandrels. Wings are linked to form an annular corridor and linked offices.

Listing NGR: SK3444088232