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Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital — Western Road

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Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital — Western Road
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Detached seven-bay three-storey brick hospital, opened 1897, with three-bay breakfront; various additions to side and rear. Hipped roof with contrasting ridge tiles, decorative finials and having red brick chimney stacks with oversailing courses. Red brick eaves course. Red brick Flemish bond façade with limestone dressings. Limestone courses to cill level of first and second floors, to the first floor inscribed, to the second moulded. Limestone course to window head level of ground floor. Camber headed openings to second floor, square to first floor, round to ground floor, also having cills. Brick swept window heads to second and ground floor, limestone pedimented to first floor. Replacement timber casement windows c. 1950. Elaborate canopied and balconied limestone, brick and marble doorcase, having steps, columns, decorative carving and keystone inscribed 1897. Double leaf raised and fielded timber panelled door with segmental fanlight. Modern two bay red brick wings to either side, set back from façade line of main building. Red brick wall, gate posts, decorative cast iron railings and gates to street. Parking space to front and rear. Architect James F. McMullen.

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