Former administration block, Powick Hospital

The former administration block of Powick Hospital, built in 1852, is a brick structure with limestone dressings and a slate roof, designed in the Italianate style. It features a symmetrical layout of four storeys and three bays, with chamfered quoins and a bracketed cornice. The windows have architraves; those on the ground floor are sashed with glazing bars and cornices, while the first-floor windows are eight-pane sashes with pediments and a sill band. The second and third floors also have sashed windows, with a sill band on the second floor. The entrance doorcase is framed by engaged Tuscan columns and a triglyph frieze, leading to a round-headed doorway with moulded imposts and a keystone. A chimney sits in the middle of the hipped roof, featuring a stone cap and a quoined base below panels with arched recesses and a cornice. The return walls are treated similarly to the main facade. Notably, in 1879, Edward Elgar became the Conductor of the staff band of the County Lunatic Asylum, which later became Powick Hospital.