St Nicholas Hospital South Block

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5206 QUEEN'S ROAD 839-1/6/148 (South side) 05/08/74 St Nicholas' Hospital, South Block (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN'S ROAD Royal Naval Asylum)

GV II

Isolation wing to naval hospital, now St Nicholas' Hospital (qv). c1809-11. By William Pilkington, supervised by Edward Holl, Architect to the Navy Board. Yellow stock brick under slate roofs. One storey. 5 bays right and left of projecting 3-bay centrepiece with 2-bay wings projecting at east and west ends under hipped roofs. 6/6 horned sashes under reduced gauged skewback arches, 4 of which are blocked. Eaves cornice of paired upright bricks imitating a triglyph frieze. INTERIOR: plain, of C20 character. HISTORICAL NOTE: possibly the isolation ward for what were known as zymotic deseases. As such an early and rare example of its type, part of a good group with the main hospital range, and the former mortuary (qv), of architectural interest for its use of decorative brickwork. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North-east Norfolk and Norwich: London: 1973-: 148; SAVE Britain's Heritage: Deserted Bastions: London: 1993-: 124).

Listing NGR: TG5284706289