Williams House

Williams House is a former hospital ward built around 1845 by George Wightwick. The building is made of squared and coursed polychrome stone with a granite plinth, a first-floor sill string, and monolithic sills, jambs, and moulded hoods on consoles at the pavilions and the first floor of the rest of the front. It features dry Delabole slate hipped roofs with granite eaves corbels and brick axial stacks. The overall layout is a double-E plan, which includes a central porch and a deep wing at the back, with front wings that have wider terminal pavilions originally designed with lean-to loggias in the angles between the pavilions and the porch. The building is two storeys tall and has a symmetrical front with a 1:3:1:3:1 bay arrangement.

The original windows are hornless sashes with glazing bars, including tripartite windows at the pavilions, and there is a one-window range at each splayed angle flanking the main range, along with two-window inner returns. The central porch bay is two storeys high and features a triangular pediment, a tripartite entrance with four Doric pilasters, a segmental-arched doorway with a vertical glazed fanlight, and a pair of glazed doors flanked by sashes. The porch has a moulded entablature and a panelled pseudo parapet. Other elevations also have original sashes over hopper lights. The interior has not been inspected.