HEREFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL (CENTRAL BLOCK)

HEREFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL (CENTRAL BLOCK), NELSON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298799
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: HEREFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL (CENTRAL BLOCK)
Statutory Address:: HEREFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL (CENTRAL BLOCK), NELSON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298799
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: HEREFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL (CENTRAL BLOCK)
Statutory Address 1:: HEREFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL (CENTRAL BLOCK), NELSON STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HEREFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL (CENTRAL BLOCK), NELSON STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hereford
National Grid Reference:: SO5136439370

Details

HEREFORD

SO5139SW 683-1/1/217 22/10/73

NELSON STREET (South side) Hereford General Hospital (Central Block)

GV II

Hospital. c1776. Brick; hipped Welsh slate roof with gable to front; 3 brick ridge stacks (reduced). 3 bay plan, the central bay advanced under pediment, with 2 wings. 3 storeys; 9-window range: C20, 6/6 sashes under gauged brick flat arches; 3/3 sashes; moulded and modillioned eaves, continuing as cornice to pediment, which has tripartite light with 3/3 sash under semicircular gauged brick arch. Central entrance: half-glazed, 2-panel door and ornamental fanlight, recessed under painted open pediment stone hood on scrolled consoles and plain pilasters; ornate C19 porch with stone dressings; flanked by 6/3 sashes under gauged brick flat arches; stucco storeyband. Insurance mark. 2-storey wings with three 6/6 sashes, and 6/3 sashes over; left-hand wing raised C20, but retains eaves detail. Rear: 5-window range with advanced wings to sides; 6/6 sashes, with 3/3 sashes over; 6/3 sashes and stained-glass lights to ground floor; gauged brick flat arches; storeyband; moulded and modillioned wood eaves; 4 roof-dormers with 3/3 sashes. INTERIOR: wrought-iron dogleg staircase with stick balusters; secondary open-well, late C19 staircase with stick balusters. Attic: winder stair; 6- and 4-panel, and plank doors. 2nd floor: cast-iron Doric pillars; wall cupboard. 1st floor: cast-iron Doric pillars. Ground floor: overlight; panelled doors; polychrome tile floor, as to chapel; some decorative plasterwork; stained-glass windows to chapel.

Listing NGR: SO5136439370

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Legacy System number:: 372403
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.