Rokeby Nursing Home

Rokeby Nursing Home is a villa that dates back to around 1834, designed by architects RW and C Jearrad. The building features ashlar stonework over a brick structure, topped with a slate roof and ashlar stacks on the party wall and ridge. It is designed in a Domestic Tudor style.

The exterior is two storeys high, with the right section built over a basement. The first floor has six windows arranged in a 2:4 pattern. The right part of the building is taller and projects forward, with a central section that also breaks forward. It has a crowning frieze and cornice with a blocking course. The windows are paired throughout, featuring central chamfered mullions. The ground floor windows have transoms, with French windows on the left and casements on the right. The first-floor windows are 1/1 sashes, all set in chamfered surrounds. The third and fifth windows have hoodmoulds.

A loggia spans the left part of the building, with four-centred arched openings. The porch features an arch supported by corbels and shaped lancet lights. The entrance consists of 8-panel, part-glazed double doors with a shaped overlight, all within a four-centred surround. Inside the porch, there is a rib-vaulted ceiling and additional double, part-glazed shaped doors.

The garden facade also has two storeys with four first-floor windows. The right end of this facade projects forward and is gabled, featuring a kneeler and shaped copings. The ground floor includes a canted bay at the breakforward section, with 1:2:1 mullion and transom windows and casements. The remaining ground floor has 2-light mullion and transom windows with French windows and overlights. The first-floor 2-light windows have 1/1 sashes, and the breakforward section features French windows and overlights under a shaped hoodmould with a shield, all in chamfered surrounds.

Inside, there is an open-well staircase with alternately embellished and stick balusters and a wreathed handrail, along with an oval skylight in the hall. The ground floor retains some of its original shutters. The building is adjacent to Aban Court on Malvern Road, creating a continuous design with the garden facade. Historically, it is part of the Lansdown development initiated by Pearson Thompson.