Sexey'S Hospital East Wing And Gateway Link To West

Sexey's Hospital East Wing and the gateway link to the West is an almshouse built in the early 19th century and extended in 1882. It is constructed from local stone that has been cut and squared, with dressings of Doulting stone, and features a Welsh slate roof behind parapets and coped gables, along with stone chimney stacks that have moulded caps. The building is designed in a plain Gothic style and has a 'U'-shaped plan, primarily consisting of three storeys, while the street facade is two storeys high and has 11 bays, with the 11th bay slightly projecting and gabled.

The facade includes a plinth, an eaves course, and a plain parapet. The windows are hollow chamfered mullioned types with cusped heads, arranged as single or two-light windows under a continuous stepped label. A door is set in a moulded cambered arch in bay 3, with a 4-light window above the lower bays 4 and 5. There is a projecting chimney stack between bays 8 and 9, and the windows in bay 11 are deeper, featuring individual labels, a two-light pointed arch blind window, and an open quatrefoil panel in the gable.

The linking doorway to the West, aligned with the street, has a moulded 4-centre arch beneath a rectangular hood that is adorned with carved foliage in the spandrils. The West facade, facing the main courtyard, has three storeys and seven bays, with mostly two cusped head light windows under separate labels. The second floor features four-centred arched similar two-light windows without labels, and there are cambered arched doorways in bays 4 and 6. The South garden elevation has three storeys (with bay 1 being four storeys) and consists of five bays, where all windows are flat-headed, mostly two-light under labels, but bays 4 and 5 have two stepped three-light windows.

The early 19th-century rebuilding of part of the Hospital was extended eastwards in 1882 to accommodate a training school for domestic servants, which has now been absorbed into the almshouse.