Nurses Home At Wanstead Hospital

The following building shall be added:-

TQ 48 NW 5/30

HERMON HILL (East Side off) NURSES HOME AT WANSTEAD HOSPITAL

II GV

Infirmary of the Merchant seaman's Orphan Asylum. 1900-01, by Arnold

Mitchell, with later alterations. Red brick in English bond with blue

brick bands and ashlar dressings. Graduated lakeland slate roof, with

Welsh slate to addition. Half-butterfly plan of 2 storeys ; 14 bays,

4 : 6 : 4, the 6 central bays in 2 shallow canted projections. At right

end added, gabled, cross-wing. Windows are tall 18-pane sashes with

6-pane overlights and wooden sills; on ground floor they are below 4-

centred arches with "voussoirs" of alternate red and blue brick and brick

tympanums ; on 1st floor they have stone lintels and rise through eaves

under stepped gables which have moulded stone coping. At centre the

1st floor windows are below parapet with wavy stone coping and stone

quasi-rainwater spouts. Stepped end gables with moulded stone coping.

Three decorative vents to ridge, that at centre larger and more elaborate

outer vents are polygonal, of one stage, with flat circular roofs; central vent is octagonal of 2 stages, the upper stage with arched braces; all have slate- hung bases, baluster-like columns supporting roofs/upper stage, and tall finials. Stacks at either end and to ridge flanking centre. Cross-wing on right has door in left return under gabled 1st- floor window; the gable end has iron steps upto 1st floor door with side- lights and arched niche to apex. Rear: in same style, the 3 central bays forming canted projection and having 15-pane sashes to lst floor and flanked by short angled wings, that on left fronted by later addition (not of special interest). Single-storey addition in angle with cross- wing not of special interest. Arnold Mitchell was surveyor to the Orphanage from 1898 to 1913.

Listing NGR: TQ4054089291