building misc

Attached staggered single-storey link building, built c.1890, to connect adjoining building to east with main building to the south-west. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughly dressed rubble stone walls. Pointed openings with limestone sills having remains of timber fittings.

Built as part of the Eglinton Asylum, later known as Our Lady's Hospital, this building forms part of a significant group of related structures. It was built in the closing years of the nineteenth century to link the main hospital to the south-west with the attached new asylum building to the east. The link continues as an underground tunnel at the west end of the building. The slate roofs, limestone walls and pointed arch openings add colour and textural interest to the start. This large complex played a significant social role in both city and county in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.