"E shaped block was built 1842-3 by William Flockton . . . Elizabethan style, of three storeys with gables, canted bay windows and a large clock above the entrance . . . enlarged 1894 . . . became Nether Edge Hospital 1929 . . converted to housing by Gleason's in 2000-3" (summarised from description in Harman and Minnis 2004, p235). Despite re-development, including the provision of additional blocks in a pastiche of the original style and the substantial rebuilding and internal reordering of some important buildings, this complex retains significant coherence of the historic character of its original use. Built within a piecemeal enclosure plot.