Former workhouse building at 54 Sambourne Road (Sambourne Hospital)

The former workhouse building at 54 Sambourne Road, also known as Sambourne Hospital, was constructed in 1836 to replace Lord Weymouth’s earlier workhouse from either 1727 or 1757, which was located on the Common. This new site was chosen for its healthier environment. The building is two storeys tall, featuring a first floor made of local rubblework and a ground floor of channelled ashlar. The slate roof is hipped to the right. The front facade has nine windows, with a central gabled break and two additional slightly set back windows to the right. The windows are glazed bar sashes with moulded architraves on the first floor. A modern wide glazed gabled porch is situated in front of the central entrance.

At the rear, there are three wings arranged in a star plan, each three storeys high and consisting of seven bays, with a slight gabled break in the center. These wings are constructed of local rubblework, featuring brick quoins and dressings, with ashlar lintels that are grooved to resemble brick flat arches above the glazing bar sashes. There are single-storey outbuildings surrounding the perimeter of the star plan, along with a two-storey staff cottage to the north. The low boundary walls made of local rubblework, which date to around 1836, can still be traced despite being partially demolished, standing at approximately 3 to 4 feet high.