Midland House

Midland House is an asylum built in the 1880s of modest size. It is constructed of red brick with stone and buff brick dressings, exhibiting simplified classical detailing. The building comprises a seven-bay main range, set back between two two-bay wings. It features low-hipped slate roofs with deep, boxed eaves, a stone plat band, and a plinth. A prominent central section has a Serlian porch and two closely spaced round-headed windows on the first floor. Other windows are round-headed on the ground floor and segmental arched on the first. The bays are defined as panels by pilaster strips with concave chamfers, with the panel heads topped with toothed bands. Midland House closes the view along Clarendon Road.