Hospital of the Holy Cross, boundary wall and gate piers

The Hospital of the Holy Cross comprises a building dated 1853, with an earlier foundation, designed by Pountney Smith. It is constructed from coursed and squared red sandstone rubble with plain tiled roofs, and consists of two ranges set at right angles to each other in a domestic Gothic style.

The left-hand range is composed of two units and is two storeys high, with a two-window range and two slightly advanced gables linked by projecting doorcases. The elevation features paired, moulded, four-centred arched doorways in the centre, flanked by two- and three-light round-headed mullioned windows. Above are two-light mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. A two-light mullioned window with a drop-ended hoodmould is in the street-facing gable, with a corbelled oriel above, featuring paired traceried mullions and leaded lights. Coped gables have finials. The rear and axial stacks are decorated with barleycorn motifs and cusped caps.

A wall with an archway connects this block to a parallel range along the street. This range is also two storeys high and has a three-window range with a central advanced gable featuring a three-light traceried mullioned bay window on the ground floor with the date and a coat of arms in the parapet. An oriel window above has traceried mullions, an embattled parapet, and paired leaded lights. An arcade of three bays on each side of the central gable forms porches, with doors flanked by single and two-light mullioned windows. Paired upper mullioned windows are set beneath small gables. Gable and axial stacks, and a side wall stack on the front gable, are highly enriched with barleycorn decoration and have cusped caps.

A low stone boundary wall with wrought-iron railings contains a central gateway. The gateway has a four-centred archway within a stepped, buttressed surround with raking copings and a cross finial. Wrought-iron gates mark the entrance. The wall and railings connect to a higher stretch of stone wall with raking copings.