workhouse administration block — John's Hill

Detached five-bay two-storey rubble stone building, built 1839-1841, originally part of larger composition forming entrance/administration block to union workhouse complex with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre, two-bay single-storey projecting block to south-west, and pair of single-bay two-storey shallow returns to north-east. Converted to use as hospital, post-1921. Renovated and truncated, 1948, with some openings remodelled. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to porch; gabled to window openings to first floor in form of dormer attic) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, cut-stone coping, profiled timber bargeboards, and replacement aluminium rainwater goods, 1948. Random squared rubble sandstone walls with squared limestone quoins to corners, and some sections of unpainted replacement cement render, 1948. Red brick English Garden Wall bond walls to porch. Square-headed window openings (some remodelled, 1948) with cut-limestone sills, and block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals. Replacement timber casement windows, 1948, with some openings retaining original timber casement windows having diamond-leaded glazing. Round-headed window opening to porch with stone sill, and fixed-pane timber window. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1975. Set back from line of road in grounds shared with Saint Patrick’s Hospital with landscaped grounds to site.