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Outbuildings. Consisting of well-appointed slables for
five horses, two coachhouses, and harness room,
which would make three or four big garages; and a
suite of five living rooms over. This latter building
is quite detached from the main buildings, and
stands at the corner of the grounds abutting on
Lyndhurst Road.
JJr.C.'s, &c. There is also a one time motor garage now
converted into a sanitary block for the hospital.
Grounds. The grounds consist of about one and threequarter
acres of land, kitchen garden, shrubbery,
&c., on which the Red Cross Society has erected two
annexes, one a terra cotta building with asbestos
roof, twenty feet by ninety feet, and one a wooden
hut, twenty feet by sixty feet. These structures
are the property of the owner and included in the
price asked.
(d) That the premises are large enough to cover a number of the
activities which came within the scope of this Committee.
(e) That the London County Council have expressed their
ness to rent a portion of it as an open-air school, making an
entrance to such portion through Rosslyn Park Mews; that
this portion would include the two annexes above referred to,
and about half the site; that they would provide all their
own stands and equipment.
(f) That the authorities of the Day Nursery in Pond Street, who
were very hard pressed for room, had expressed their willingness
to rent a portion of the premises; that they were in a
position to leave their present house at any time and would
only be too pleased to take accommodation in these premises.
It is suggested that they should occupy the top floor with a
room in the servant's offices.
(g That the large entrance hall and the four big rooms surrounding
it could advantageously accommodate a Child Welfare Centre,
and Ante-Natal Clinic, &c., whilst the rooms over the stable
block could be let as a flat or could be utilised as caretakers'
lodging; that the porlion of the building, which is now the