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Building 18: Tredgold Hall

Tredgold Hall is part of the “Boys’ Village” area of the hospital. It is a non-residential building, designed for the teaching of Occupational Classes. It is however of similar construction to Buildings 14-17 and dates to the same phase of hospital expansion in 1956. It is a two-storey building, rectangular in plan with hipped roofs in the central section and pitched-roof gable-end wings set perpendicular to the main block. In common with the upper Boys’ Village buildings, Tredgold Hall is terraced into the hillside; the western terrace cut is faced with a rubble sandstone wall running parallel to the building’s western elevation. Its northern extent is bounded by a set of concrete stairs for access to the west.

The ground floor contains a number of Workrooms as well as toilet facilities. The first floor of the building is only accessible via the external doors on its west side. This was shuttered during the building recording and no access was gained to the first floor, which, according to the historic ground plans, replicates the ground floor exactly. The building therefore has a very distinctive circulation pattern: there is no interconnection between the two floors. In position the building is on the southern fringe of the Boy’s Village and lies between the Boys Village and the Girls’ Village; the building therefore may have been used to accommodate girls and boys with the sexes separated with opposing access routes.