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Buildings 8 and 9 are later additions to the villa-style buildings on the north-eastern fringes of the site, part of the post-1950 expansion of the hospital. Both buildings are identical.
Building 8, No. 7 The Drive, is a two-storey building, rectangular in plan with a low rectangular garage addition on its north-eastern side. It has a slated pitched roof. It is composed of yellow-brown engineering bricks laid in stretcher courses. The windows have plain brick surrounds and projecting plain concrete sills without lintels. The north-western (front) elevation in elaborated with a panel of painted wooden planks above the flat projecting porch above the door, and below a first floor window. Similar panel cladding elaborates the south-eastern (rear) elevation.
Building 11, No. 5 The Drive or ‘Woodside’ is a villa building in Domestic Revival style, square in plan with a short projecting wing. Its hipped roof is clad in roughcast; its front elevation is elaborated with a faceted bay window and timber-frame decoration. The building is set off the main estate drive and accessed via a subsidiary lane. Building 10 is its associated garage.