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Saint James's Hospital — James's Street

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Saint James's Hospital — James's Street
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Detached nineteen-bay three-storey former workhouse dormitory, built c.1860, having projecting wings to east, and full-height later extension, built c.1950, to full-width of front (east) elevation, having three-bay entrance block and three-bay projecting blocks. Now in use as hospital. Hipped slate roof, flat roof to extension. Snecked dressed calp limestone walls having quoins. Roughcast rendered walls to twentieth-century extension. Square-headed window openings having brown brick block-and-start surrounds. Patent reveals to extension window openings. Replacement uPVC windows. Glazed entrance within recent single-storey extension to rear (west) elevation. Projecting flat-roofed single-storey entrance to front having segmental-headed projecting eaves over glazed doors. Recent concrete steps and ramp.

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