Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital

Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital is a house that was converted into a hospital, built between 1899 and 1902 by Charles Dorman for James Manfield, a shoe manufacturer from Northampton. It became a hospital around 1923. The building is constructed from dressed ironstone with dressings of Rutland stone and features a stone tile roof with moulded coping stones on its shaped gables. The chimney stacks have groups of Portland stone shafts with cornices.

The main block of the building includes an entrance hall and stair hall, with a cross-wing to the right and a long service wing to the left, all designed in a Free Jacobethan style. The exterior is two storeys high with an attic and has a long northwest front with a layout of three, two, four, one, one, and one bays. It features stone cross mullion transom windows with leaded panes. A prominent feature is the elaborate two-storey ashlar porch on the right, which has pilasters flanking an arched doorway, topped with pinnacles and strapwork. Above, there is a three-light window with a Tuscan colonnade, a broken entablature, and a shaped gable with a pediment and arms. The front also includes four pedimented dormers, a large stone mullion window in the stair hall, and a shaped gabled crossing to the right with an integral stack and a square two-storey bay with small corner windows supported by squat Tuscan columns. The service wing on the left has a pair of gables. The southeast garden front features cross-wings on either side with shaped gables and two-storey bowed bay windows, with the service wing set back on the right.

Inside, the hospital has a number of elaborate features, including panelling, plasterwork, screens, doors and doorcases with overdoors, chimneypieces, a large inglenook, and a staircase with an arcaded screen and balustrade. There is also a stained glass window in the stair area, all designed in a Jacobean style.