Boiler House And Laundry North Of Jane Walker Hospital

The boiler house and laundry located north of Jane Walker Hospital were built around 1898-1900 by Smith and Brewer for the East Anglian Sanatorium Company. Constructed from English bond brick, the building features pantile roofs with gabled and hipped ends. The layout includes a long, narrow southeast range that serves as the laundry, which has a water tower and an integral chimney at its northwest end. At right angles to this is the boiler house, characterized by a broad double-span roof and designed in a functional late Victorian Free Style.

The exterior of the building is single-storey. The boiler house has broad twin gables that are glazed and supported by battered brick buttresses, originally featuring large doors below. On the north side, there is a low-pitched gabled vehicular entrance with a segmental arch, while the south side has a segmental window in a wide gable. The laundry wing is distinguished by large segmental-headed four-light windows with glazing bars on the west side and a louvred ventilator along the ridge. A large rectangular water tower is located on the north side, topped with an iron tank that has railings and an iron ladder on the side, adjacent to the integral tapered chimney that rises above the tank. The interior has not been inspected.