The Priory Hospital (Including Ice House)

The Priory Hospital, including the ice house, is an early 19th-century building designed in a stucco Gothic style with slate roofs and battlements. It stands two storeys tall. The north elevation, which was the former entrance facing Dowdeswell Close, features a long, irregular front with a central entrance bay that has a pointed-arch door with panel tracery set behind a taller pointed arch in a gabled porch. Above the door is a niche containing a figure of a bishop. Flanking the entrance are octagonal towers that support triplets of Tudor-type chimney stacks. The elevation is further characterized by octagonal buttresses and pilaster strips, which are cut by chamfered strings, and it contains a variety of windows.

On the south elevation, which faces the garden, there is a three-bay pointed-arch entrance loggia with a trellis-moulded interior. This loggia features a central panel-tracery double door flanked by mullion-and-transom windows. The flanking octagonal towers have panel-tracery windows beneath pointed-arch drip moulds and Tudor-type stacks. To the right, there is a long asymmetrical right-angled range that is articulated by pinnacled buttresses. There are later extensions to the left of the loggia and towards Priory Lane. Notable interior features include a chapel with a fine ceiling. The grounds also contain an ice house. Extensions were made by Romiau and Cough around 1840.