Christina Louise Nursing Home (aka Central Surgery)

Not inspected at the time of Survey (June 1999).

Arts and Crafts style, built of red brick with extensive Bathstone detail. Hipped slate roof. Windows replaced in plastic. Entrance elevation of five bays and three storeys, the slightly projecting penultimate bays narrower, rising to parapets. Outer bays have wide round-arched doorways with cut ashlar voussoirs, moulded imposts and large carved triple keystones, which rise to elaborate carved scrolls beneath first floor moulded stone window-sills. First floor of outer bays are of brick with ashlar bands; square windows with ashlar surrounds and moulded cornices. Upper floor level of outer bays of ashlar; plain windows. Narrow projecting penultimate bays of brick have matching ground floor windows set in door-like surrounds with moulded ‘eared’ ashlar architraves; glazed oculus above with quartered radiating ashlar voussoirs: open stone pediments above. Narrow windows to upper storeys framed by thin brick pilaster strips rising to ashlar open semi-circular pediments at attic level; tympanae with carved cartouches. Brick parapets above pediments. First floor windows have triglyph-like cornices. Wide centre bay has ground floor stage of Bathstone, with large thermal window; triple keystone rising to carved scroll. Upper windows flanked by giant thin brick pilasters with alternating bands of brick and ashlar each side: pilasters rise to open triangular pediment. Lower window is rectangular with large tablet above inscribed: ‘Central Surgery. Tredegar Medical Aid and Sick Relief Fund’ Thermal window above with large radiating advanced voussoirs rising to pediment. Scrolled tablet above pediment with datestone of 1911.