Centre Block Of The Trowbridge And District Hospital

The Centre Block of the Trowbridge and District Hospital, built around 1857, is a two-storey and basement suburban house that completes the view along Adcroft Street. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features five bays, with the central three bays projecting forward. The right-hand bay includes a four-storey tower. The building has shallow pitched hipped slate roofs, a plinth, draughted ground floor, a cill band at the first floor, and overhanging eaves with a moulded cast iron gutter. The windows are later casement types, with shallow pediments above the ground floor windows. The left-hand first-floor window is blind. The window arrangements are slightly broken, except for the centre, which is slightly recessed and has a projecting tripartite porch with piers leading to a cornice and tall sidelights beside the glazed doors. The tower features a band above the first floor, a cill band beneath three grouped round-headed windows on the third floor, a cornice below, and a belvedere balcony at the rear. The Centre Block, along with Nos 1 to 13 and Nos 16 to 29, forms a cohesive group.