Workshop at Royal Earlswood Hospital

The workshop at Royal Earlswood Hospital, dated 1861, was originally built as a laundry, boot room, and boiler shop. It reflects the institution's commitment to self-sufficiency and vocational training for people with learning disabilities, making it the earliest known workshop building for this purpose in the country.

Designed in the Jacobean style, the building is faced with Reigate stone and features Bath stone dressings, although some areas have been patched with cement. The central three-storey section has four bays, with the central bays projecting and adorned with a pierced parapet and a central clock set in a curved pediment. The central windows are mullioned and transomed casements. Flanking the central section are wings that likely originally separated male and female residents. The lower floor has five windows, while the first floor features nine round-headed windows arranged in a continuous arcade. Although all window openings are original, the windows themselves were replaced with 1950s metal casements. At the rear, there is a former boiler room with a single storey and a hipped slate roof. A 20th-century wing at the rear is not of special interest.