Blood Transfusion Centre And Attached Walls, Steps And Gate Piers

The Blood Transfusion Centre, part of the former Raglan Barracks and now within a hospital complex, dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed from Plymouth limestone ashlar and features an asbestos slate hipped roof that is set behind a parapet with a moulded entablature. The building has a rectangular plan and is a single storey high, with five bays on the front and three bays on the right-hand return. The façade includes ashlar piers with an impost string and recessed panels within round arches, which hold horned sash windows with glazing bars and fanlight heads. There are blind openings on the left and right of the right-hand return. The interior has not been inspected.

The site also includes subsidiary features such as a rubble wall with dressed coping that forms a raised pavement in the forecourt, along with flanking steps that connect to the rubble wall. There are a pair of square ashlar gate-piers topped with squat pyramid caps, which are linked by a rubble wall with dressed coping to another similar pair of gate-piers, plus additional rubble walling.