Rustington Convalescent Home

1. 5401 SEA ROAD

Rustington Convalescent Home TQ 00 SW 3/7

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1. Convalescent Home. 1897 by F Wheeler in a neo-Caroline style. Brown brick with red dressings and some stone enrichment. Slate hipped roof with single and paired segment headed dormers. 2 storeys with attics and 1 storey and attic wing to east. Central square 4-storey tower with stone dressings surmounted by clock stage and octagonal open cupola over. 13 bay central block, with sash windows in pairs, and half-hipped aprons below glazing bars only in broken upper leaves. Central stone segmental pedimented entrance in tower. 3-bay east wing, windows very closely spaced in centre with balcony over ground floor. 3-bay west wing projecting pediment gable over and with windows closely spaced in centre and 2-storey octagonal corner turret with octagonal conical roof over at south-west corner. West front 3-bays with south-west corner turret. Central 1-bar projection with pediment over and stone segmental-pedimented entrance Interior: Contemporary wooden 5-flight rectangular open well staircase with ramped handrail, closed strings and spiral balusters. Decorative stained glass in octagonal bay lighting stair-well.

Listing NGR: TQ0432401456