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Designed by English architect Thomas Smith who came to work in County Louth in the mid 19th century. Now in use as extra accommodation for the nearby Grammar School, it was built as a hospital to serve the people of Dundalk and the county at a cost of over £3,000. Smith designed it in a restrained neo-Tudor style with a central entranceway flanked by two recessed ranged with ground floor arcades. A simple building, it has a quiet elegance.

William M. Thackeray notes in 1842 that 'Matron's accommodation' was provided for, the picture above left is known as the 'Nurses' House" so it is probably that which Thackeray mentions.