Children'S Convalescent Home, Including Boundary Wall And Gates

The Children's Convalescent Home, built in 1836, was formerly a Union Workhouse and is attributed to W. Cooper, an associate of Sir Gilbert Scott. The building is constructed from ashlar Bath stone and features pitched slate roofs with overhanging eaves supported by paired cut brackets. It has a grid-iron plan with an octagonal crossing at the center and stands two storeys tall. A plain band runs above the ground floor.

The main elevation displays 17 ranges of swivelling windows, with the central seven bays featuring vertical glazing bars only. The central seven bays project forward, and the middle five bays project again, topped by a pediment with a wooden entablature, also supported by paired cut brackets and clasping buttresses at all angles. There are unmoulded pediments on plain corbel blocks above two former entrance doors, one of which is not a window. The ground floor central window has a modern casement, and there are two modern doors in the central bays of the flanking wings.

The block adjacent to the Common has four ranges of modern casements and one range of original casements with vertical glazing bars only. A wall extends from this block running south and returns into Hyde Lane, made of ashlar and ramped to rusticated gatepiers, topped with iron gates featuring arrowhead finials.