 In 1786 the hospital moved to Dance's purpose-built premises on Old Street, between Bath St and what is now the City Road roundabout.The building had a magnificent frontage of clamp brick, long, which had a central entrance, with the male wards to the left and female wards to the right.The building contained single cells for 300 patients, each with small windows set high in the wall, no heating, and loose straw on wooden bedsteads.