Nightingale House

Nightingale House is a house that was later part of a hospital and is now a residential home for the elderly. It dates from the late 18th century and was extended in the early to mid-19th century, with further additions and alterations made later. The building is constructed of red brick on a chamfered ashlar plinth, topped with a slate roof that features coped verges on carved stone kneelers at the right gable end. There are external end stacks, with the right stack having a wide base.

Originally a 3-bay house, it was extended by an additional 3 bays to the left in the 19th century, which can be seen at the straight joint. The house has three storeys, with a moulded stone eaves cornice on the 18th-century part and a toothed eaves cornice on the 19th-century addition. The 18th-century section features glazing bar sash windows with gauged heads, while the second floor windows are of reduced proportions.

The central entrance has a 4-panel door, with the upper panels now glazed, set within a round-arched fluted pilastered doorcase that includes a plain semi-circular fanlight and a bracketed open pediment. The 19th-century extension has three closely spaced glazing bar sash windows with sandstone wedge lintels designed to imitate gauged brick heads. There is also a Venetian window with a stone surround on the ground floor.

A stone tablet located at the junction between the two parts on the ground floor, erected by the Baschurch Women's Institute to commemorate the coronation of Elizabeth II, notes that the house was the center of the first open-air hospital for cripples in the world, founded by Dame Agnes Hunt in 1900. There are lower 19th-century ranges at the rear.