Christina Louise Nursing Home (aka Central Surgery)

Christina Louise Nursing Home, also known as Central Surgery, is a building in the Arts and Crafts style, constructed of red brick with extensive Bathstone detailing. It features a hipped slate roof and has had its windows replaced with plastic. The entrance elevation consists of five bays and three storeys, with the slightly projecting penultimate bays being narrower and rising to parapets. The outer bays have wide round-arched doorways with cut ashlar voussoirs, moulded imposts, and large carved triple keystones, which are adorned with elaborate carved scrolls beneath the first-floor moulded stone window sills.

The first floor of the outer bays is made of brick with ashlar bands, featuring square windows with ashlar surrounds and moulded cornices. The upper floor of the outer bays is finished in ashlar, with plain windows. The narrow projecting penultimate bays of brick have matching ground floor windows set in door-like surrounds with moulded ‘eared’ ashlar architraves, and above them are glazed oculi with quartered radiating ashlar voussoirs and open stone pediments. The narrow windows on the upper storeys are framed by thin brick pilaster strips that rise to ashlar open semi-circular pediments, with tympanae featuring carved cartouches. Brick parapets sit above the pediments, and the first-floor windows have triglyph-like cornices.

The wide centre bay has a ground floor stage of Bathstone, featuring a large thermal window with a triple keystone that rises to a carved scroll. The upper windows are flanked by giant thin brick pilasters with alternating bands of brick and ashlar on each side, and these pilasters rise to an open triangular pediment. The lower window is rectangular, with a large tablet above inscribed: ‘Central Surgery. Tredegar Medical Aid and Sick Relief Fund’. Above this is a thermal window with large radiating advanced voussoirs that rise to the pediment, which is topped with a scrolled tablet bearing the datestone of 1911.

The building was not inspected at the time of the survey in June 1999.