The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 LONGPORT (North Side)
Former Kent and Canterbury Hospital TR 1557 NW 5/551
II
2. Early C19, 3 storeys stuccoed. Parapet. Sashes with glazing bars intact. Stringcourses. 2 gabled 2 storey extensions. Rusticated bay. Doorcase has a cornice, 2 console brackets and a moulded architrave. 4 stone steps.
Listing NGR: TR1545557724

Demolished in 1974, de-listing in progress (04/03/2010)

Description from record TR 15 NE 387:
The general hospital was opened in 1793, having been erected for a sum of £6,000 raised by public subscription. It was originally a three-storey building with two-storey wings to each side. Two new wings were aded to the south front by 1874, and in 1905 the hospital was extensively renovated. By 1927 it provided 115 beds but it was decided that a new hospital was required and so it was suprceded by the new Kent and Canterbury Hospital in Ethelbert Road in 1937. The old building has since been demolished(1)

<1> RCHME, 1993, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England: Compilation of Kent Hospitals Record Sheets (Unpublished document). SKE6841.

<2> RCHME edited by Harriet Richardson, 1998, English Hospitals 1660-1948 (Monograph). SKE6867.