Crimea House Fort Pitt Grammar School For Girls

ROCHESTER FORT PITT HILL TQ 7567 13/37 Crimea House (Fort 24.10.50 Pitt Grammar School for Girls) II Former barracks hospital block. Late C18 or early C19. English bond gault brick; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys. 6-window pedimented centre, 5-window flanking wings. Centre and paired end bays slightly advanced. Centre has 2 tripartite plate-glass sash windows and blocked round-headed arch to ground; 1st floor with 3 c.1900 horned plate glass sashes to left and 3 18-pane sashes (possibly early C19) to right, that to the centre under a cambered brick arch designed for a larger window now blocked. Stone dentil shallow pediment. Flanking recessed bays have 3 12- pane sashes in reveals to each floor (one converted into a door); the advanced side bays have 2 ground floor 12-pane sashes, the 1st floor with similar sashes to left, 18-pane sashes to right, all in reveals and under flat window arches. Dentil eaves cornice. Stepped stone terrace with footings of former verandah. 3 ridge stacks. The building was used as a hospital during the Crimea war (hence its name) and was visited by Queen Victoria.

Listing NGR: TQ7509367588