Victoria House At Victoria Hospital

Victoria House at Victoria Hospital is an army mental asylum built in 1866 by the Royal Engineers, now serving as a police training headquarters. The building features red brick in Flemish bond with buff-coloured brick dressings and slate roofs, showcasing an Italianate style. It has an E-shaped plan, with flanking ward wings extending to the rear, the southeast wing containing the infirmary. The central projection includes a dayroom, with stairs and a dining hall located in the central wing at the back, while ablution blocks flank the front range.

The exterior is two storeys high, with a symmetrical southwest front consisting of three, one, three, six, three, six, three, one, and three bays. The centre and end bays project and are topped with pediments featuring modillion cornices, wide rusticated brick quoins, pilasters, and window architraves. The round-headed windows have impost and cill bands, with apron panels on the first floor; the ground floor includes counter-balanced sashes with small panes and French casements. The flanking square ablution blocks are three bays wide, with hipped roofs and modillion eaves.

At the rear, the wings are more simply designed, featuring hipped roofs and sash windows. The central dining hall has a gable-ended roof with four large round-headed windows on the first floor and a single-storey seven-bay range below that includes a central entrance. The courtyards between the rear wings have been infilled with a glazed structure from the 1980s. The interior has been remodelled.