Williton Hospital

Williton Hospital, originally a workhouse, was built between 1838 and 1840 by architects George Gilbert Scott and William Moffatt for the Williton Poor Law Union. The building features an entrance range made of ashlar Bath stone, while the rest is constructed from squared and coursed red sandstone rubble, topped with hipped slate roofs and brick stacks. It has a cruciform layout with a central octagonal four-storey block and long three-storey wings, connected by single-storey ramps to the entrance range, which includes a central pedimented gateway and a single-storey courtyard range at the rear.

The entrance range consists of eleven bays, highlighted by a central semi-circular arched opening and a pedimented top. Pilaster strips divide the bays, with the outer two bays breaking forward and featuring hipped roofs. The windows include twelve-pane and sixteen-pane sash windows, with paired pointed arched openings in the right four bays that form the chapel, and entrances located on the inner walls of the archway.

The main range has an octagonal four-storey tower with two angled pedimented faces and coped verges. A string course with pilasters distinguishes the upper storey, which contains sixteen-pane sash windows and a twelve-pane sash window at the re-entrant angles, topped with an octagonal wooden lantern. The flanking seven-bay wings have the end two bays breaking forward with hipped roofs and feature a mix of 19th-century fenestration, primarily comprising many-paned pivotal windows. The interior was not viewed. This building is one of the best surviving examples of the numerous workhouses designed by Scott and Moffatt.