University College Hospital Medical School, Nurses Home 1907 Building And Attached Railings

The University College Hospital Medical School, specifically the part of the Nurses Home adjacent to the junction of University Street and Huntley Street, was built in 1905 by Paul Waterhouse. This building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features banded quoining, topped with slate roofs, and is designed in the Edwardian Baroque style.

The entrance front facing Gower Street is a three-storey, seven-bay range. Its central feature is a projecting broken segmental pediment supported by a giant order of Ionic pilasters, which flank an Ionic portico set within a semicircular archway. The ground floor exhibits channelled rustication with keyed flat arches over metal casement windows. The first-floor windows are similar, set within moulded stone architraves that include cornices and central segmental pediments. The 20th-century second-floor windows are located beneath a moulded stone cornice and parapet.

The elevation facing University Street is capped by pedimented blocks featuring giant orders of Ionic pilasters above a rusticated ground floor. A central projecting pedimented block with banded quoining showcases giant order Ionic half-columns resting on two rusticated floors, with flat-roofed dormers on the roof. The rear elevation facing Huntley Street also has channelled rustication on the two lower floors, topped with a dentilled cornice over a central entrance bay that includes an Ionic portico set in a cavetto-moulded semicircular arch. Above this, square-headed cavetto-moulded window architraves are positioned over two bow windows supported by Ionic columns. The interior has not been inspected.