Devonport House

Devonport House is a nurses' home built between 1926 and 1929 by Sir Edwin Cooper. It incorporates part of a Boys' Hospital from 1783, which forms a rear wing (numbers 66-68 King William Walk). The building is constructed of reddish-brown brick in English bond, with Portland stone dressings, and has a hipped Roman tile roof with brick stacks topped with moulded stone capping.

The design is in the Wrennaissance style and features a long east-west range facing Romney Road, with two projecting wings to the south, including the 1783 wing to the west. The building has three storeys and an attic, with a 24-window front. It includes a stone plat band above the ground floor, which is rusticated, and stone cill bands to the ground and first floors. A giant order of two Doric columns is centrally placed, above a semicircular arched entrance flanked by blind oculi. Flanking bays have garlanded stone oculi above 24-pane sashes set in bracketed, pedimented stone architraves. Panelled double doors are set within bolection-moulded stone architraves alongside bracketed balustrades topped with flaming urns. Ground-floor windows are 20-pane sashes, while first-floor windows are 15-pane sashes and second-floor windows are 12-pane sashes, all set in square-headed stone architraves. Pedimented dormers with 12-pane sashes are present in the attic.

The rear of the central entrance bay includes a lugged bolection-moulded architrave to a second-floor window and a pedimented first-floor window with a balcony and urns above a similar rusticated doorway. The 1783 wing, facing King William Walk, is three storeys high with eight bays across and three bays deep. It has first and second-floor windows, some retaining gauged brick arches over sashes with glazing bars, set into recessed semicircular arches with stone impost courses and a dentilled cornice.

Inside, the building features a marble vestibule with pilasters, a commemorative plaque, a dentilled cornice, and a neo-classical style plaster ceiling. A fine panelled boardroom contains a carved overmantel, a marble fireplace, and a neo-classical style plaster ceiling. Two late 17th-century style dog-leg staircases have turned balusters.