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Detached two-storey limestone former fever hospital, dated 1848, having three-bay ground floor and four-bay first floor, and single-storey ruinous extension to rear (north-east) elevation. Now in use as school. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack to one gable and slightly projecting stone stack to rear, cut-stone copings having finials to kneelers. Roughly dressed walls and quoins. Square-headed window openings, some with cut-stone mullions, all having sloping tooled sills and block-and-start surrounds, and replacement uPVC windows. Rear has replacement timber windows to first floor, and small-pane timber casement windows to ground floor. Tudor arch door opening to front elevation, with replacement timber panelled door with fanlight, cut-stone steps and set in chamfered stone surround with keystone having inscribed date '1848', with flanking sidelights having moulded chamfered stone surrounds, all under carved continuous label-moulding. Remaining cast-iron gate to front of site. Set within former workhouse complex.
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