Former Nurses' Home Including Gatepiers And Boundary Walls, 17 Cadzow Crescent

Dated 1911. 2-storey 3-bay simple Classical former Nurses' Home, now Barnardo's Day Centre. Squared and snecked tooled sandstone to W elevation with ashlar dressings, canted bay and porch, rubble to other elevations. Base course to W elevation, balustraded porch, stone mullions, overhanging eaves.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near-central advanced flat-roofed corniced entrance porch with stone balustrade and round-arched openings. Below balustrade, lettering, 'OPENED 12TH OCT 1911 DUCHESS NINA NURSES' HOME'. Timber 2-leaf door with plate glass fanlight above. Above, single light window. To left, tripartite window at ground, bipartite to 1st floor. To right, advanced gable with tripartite canted bay at ground, bipartite above.

E ELEVATION: blank excepting later doorway at ground with slated canopy attaches to later monopitch harled extension to E.

Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows with horns. Grey slates. Large pair of wallhead stacks to S, single wallhead stack to N. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: good. Wide corniced hallway with inner timber entrance screen with 2-leaf timber doors with upper panels with leaded glazing. Large sidelights, part-glazed and fanlights. Black and white encaustic tiling. Timber staircase and banister. 6-panel timber doors. Some simple dentilled cornices to ground floor principal rooms. Many cast-iron fireplaces with timber chimneypieces.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: to W, high rubble wall with long and short coping. To NW, pair of square ashlar pedestrian gatepiers with near-flat overhanging caps. To SW, similar pair of square ashlar gatepiers.