Trent Hospital (Main Block)

STONE

SJ8933 CROWN STREET, Stone 651-1/6/18 (South side (off)) 27/07/72 Trent Hospital (Main block)

GV II

Workhouse, now hospital. 1792-3; 2nd storey added 1838-9, by Boulton and Palmer of Stafford; later C19 additions. H-plan. Georgian style. Brick with plaster and ashlar dressings; slate M-roof, hipped to wings, with brick stacks. 2 storeys; 5-window range with 3-storey cross wings. Platt bands to wings over 1st floor; top modillioned brick friezes and ashlar cornices. Central entrance has plaster surround and cornice, C20 glazed doors, sidelights and C20 glazed timber porch; segmental-headed entrances to inner returns of wings. Windows have sills, plaster surrounds and simple cornices, most with 4-pane horned sashes, but central 1st floor tripartite window with plaster apron panel and small-paned iron glazing, similar windows to wings, that to ground floor of right wing has inserted French window, those to 1st floors have central 4-pane horned sashes; 2nd floor of wings have triple round-headed lights with small-paned glazing. Axial stack and return lateral stacks. Tower to right return has angle pilasters and top frieze, paired round-headed lights, those to top louvred. Right return has iron glazing to 2nd floor windows; C19 2-storey wings project to front and rear. Rear is similar; windows have segmental lintels and varied sashes and iron glazing, central bow window with 12-pane sashes; 2-window addition to right end. INTERIOR altered, some exposed beams. The original design was copied from that of the Romford Workhouse of 1787. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 269).

Listing NGR: SJ8998733809