hospital/infirmary

Attached seven-bay double-height building, built c.1880, with single-storey lean-to to south elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks, vents to ridge and some cast-iron rainwater goods to timber eaves. Rubble stone walls. Paired and triple pointed arch window openings with red brick surrounds, stone sills and one-over-one timber sash windows with margin lights and trefoil overlights. Square-headed window openings to west elevation with cut limestone block-and-start surrounds and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening to west elevation with cut limestone block-and-start surround. Blocked square-headed and round-headed openings to north elevation. Located to rear of former asylum building.

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. Its double height form and roof vents suggest that it may have been used as a hall. The materials utilised in its construction, including sandstone, limestone, brick and slate add colour and textural interest to the site. This large complex played a significant social role in both city and county in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.