St Nicholas Hospital South Block

St Nicholas Hospital's South Block is an isolation wing of a naval hospital, built around 1809-1811. Designed by William Pilkington and supervised by Edward Holl, the Architect to the Navy Board, it features yellow stock brick under slate roofs and is a single storey building. The structure has five bays on either side of a projecting three-bay center, with two-bay wings extending at the east and west ends, all topped with hipped roofs. The windows are 6/6 horned sashes set beneath reduced gauged skewback arches, four of which are blocked. The eaves cornice consists of paired upright bricks that mimic a triglyph frieze. The interior has a plain character typical of the 20th century. Historically, this block may have served as the isolation ward for what were known as zymotic diseases, making it an early and rare example of its type. It is part of a significant group with the main hospital range and the former mortuary, noted for its decorative brickwork.