Blencathra Building

The Blencathra Building, formerly known as the City Maternity Hospital and part of the City General Hospital, is a former maternity ward that was originally a hospital wing of the Workhouse, built between 1863 and 1864 by Lockwood & Mawson. The building features Flemish bond brickwork set on a chamfered plinth, with all dressings made of calciferous sandstone, some of which are painted. It has quoined angle pilasters, string courses, and a dentilled cornice. The roof is hipped and covered with greenslate, and there are no chimneys.

The structure is two stories tall and consists of seven bays, with the last end bays on each side projecting and topped with pediments. It was designed to match the main workhouse building. A central 20th-century door is set within an original round-arched pilastered surround. The original sash windows, which feature glazing bars, have rounded stone arches with stone sills on the ground floor, while the upper floor windows are topped with segmental brick arches. The projecting bays have tripartite windows on the ground floor and two-light windows with a central colonnette above, all set in stone arches.

The listing also includes the lower three-bay flanking wings. The building is depicted as the hospital wing for Fusehill Workhouse on the 1865 Ordnance Survey map.