St Johns Hospital (Cricklade College)

This building began as a workhouse in 1836 and is now a college. It was extended around the middle of the 19th century. Constructed primarily of red brick in a Flemish bond, with stucco detailing, it features a Welsh slate roof with gabled ends and brick stacks. The original front range incorporates a boardroom and a master's house, connected to rear ward wings arranged in a cruciform plan, with a central hub acting as an observation post overlooking exercise and drying yards. Large wings, also dating to around the middle of the 19th century, flank the front range.

The front facade is a symmetrical design of two storeys and three bays, with the centre bay slightly advanced and topped with a pedimental gable bearing the date 1836. The ground floor features rusticated stucco with horizontal joints disguised as voussoirs surrounding round-arched windows and a central doorway. The doorway has a fanlight with radiating glazing bars, and a four-panelled door. Upper floors contain sash windows with glazing bars, the ground floor arches exhibiting radiating bars. Flat rubbed brick arches and a cill band define the first-floor windows. Low links connect the front range to the flanking wings, which are two storeys in height and have projecting fronts with pedimental gables containing circular ventilators, a string course, and seven-window sides, punctuated by large twelve-pane sashes and cambered brick arches. The rear features three-storey wings radiating from a central polygonal hub, which contributes to the plan's unique design, though it has undergone considerable architectural alteration, as has the linking wing connecting to the front range. Sash windows with glazing bars are present throughout, although many have been replaced with casements. Original sash windows with glazing bars remain largely intact in the central hub. The interior has not been inspected. The symmetrical design is mirrored in later, mid-19th century extensions.