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Saint John's Hospital — Munster Hill

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Saint John's Hospital — Munster Hill
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Detached nineteen-bay two- and three-storey "Accommodation Block", built 1841-2; dated 1842; opened 1842, on a symmetrical plan with two-bay (three-bay deep) three-storey double gabled projecting end bays; single-bay (seven-bay deep) single-storey chapel return (west). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Adapted to alternative use, 1922. Refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof; pitched double gabled (M-profile) slate roofs (end bays); pitched slate roof (west), clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks on rendered bases having stringcourses below thumbnail beaded capping supporting terracotta pots, cut-granite chamfered coping to gables on "Bowtell" kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on repointed coursed or snecked rubble stone base. Tudor-headed central door opening approached by flight of nine cut-granite steps between wrought iron railings with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement aluminium casement windows. Round-headed window openings (west) with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement fixed-pane timber fittings. Set in shared grounds.

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