Nightingale House

BASCHURCH C.P. NEWTOWN SJ 42 SW 15/23 Nightingale House - GV II House, latterly part of hospital, now residential home for the elderly. Late C18 extended early to mid-C19 with later additions and alterations. Red brick on chamfered ashlar plinth; slate roof with coped verges on carved stone kneelers to right gable end. External end stacks, that to right with wide base. Original 3-bay house extended by further 3 bays to left in C19 (see straight joint). 3 storeys with moulded stone eaves cornice to C18 part and toothed eaves cornice to C19 addition. C18 part has glazing bar sashes with gauged heads, of reduced proportions to second floor. Central entrance has 4-panel door (upper panels now glazed) in round-arched fluted pilastered doorcase with plain semi-circular fanlight and bracketed open pediment. C19 extension has 3 closely spaced glazing bar sashes with sandstone wedge lintels scored in imitation of gauged brick heads. Venetian window with stone surround to ground floor. Stone tablet at junction between 2 parts on ground floor (erected by Baschurch Womens' Institute to commemorate the coronation of Elizabeth II) records that the house was the centre of the first open-air hospital for cripples in the world, founded by Dame Agnes Hunt in 1900. Lower C19 ranges to rear.

Listing NGR: SJ4253922080