 As of 2020, the Royal Alexandra Hospital is one of seven children's hospitals in Great Britain.Thomas Lainson's building of 1880–81 was in a Shavian interpretation of the Queen Anne style, which he and his sons used again in later buildings in the area (such as the Belgrave Hotel of 1882 and in their work on the Vallance Estate in Hove in the early 1890s).The three-storey building is mostly of red brick with some terracotta dressings.