Girls Hostel

The Girls Hostel is a building dating from around 1830 to 1840. It is a two-storey red brick house set on a stone plinth, featuring stone chamfered quoins and a stone sill course. The roof has a low pitch and is covered with nipped slate, with wide boxed eaves. The front has three recessed sash windows without glazing bars, with camber heads and block sills on the ground floor. There is a central doorway that has been converted into a French window, topped with a semi-circular fanlight and a small keystone above. A later addition includes a wing to the north and a single-storey three-sided entrance bay at the angle with the main block. The original door may have been moved to this new entrance; it has six moulded panels, with the centre ones circular and the other panels curved at the base and top. The south front of the main block features two sash windows with intact glazing bars. The garden contains fine trees. The Girls Hostel and Bellevue Cottage are part of a group.