Ellesmere Hospital
ELLESMERE HOSPITAL, QUEENS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033359
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Ellesmere Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- ELLESMERE HOSPITAL, QUEENS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033359
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Ellesmere Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELLESMERE HOSPITAL, QUEENS ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ELLESMERE HOSPITAL, QUEENS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Elmbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 09355 64459
Details
TQ 06 SE WEYBRIDGE QUEENS ROAD
374/4/10032 Ellesmere Hospital
II
Alternatively known as: Ellesmere Hospital, QUEENS ROAD.
Former convalescent hospital. 1850-3 by Joseph Clarke as The Metropolitan Convalescent Institution. Left hand wing added 1861, right hand 1868; both to Clarke's original design. Red brick with stone quoins, 1st floor band, entablature and dressings to the front; yellow stock brick to the rear. Slated pitched roofs with tall brick chimney stacks. Symmetrical design in classical style. Central projecting bay of 3 windows; wings of 16 windows each, the end pavilions slightly projecting. Central bay of 2 storeys, attic and basement; wings, 2 storeys. Round-arched ground floor openings. Main entrance with rusticated and chanelled stone surround with mask keystone; flanking windows in similar surrounds and having margin glazing. Above the entrance, a tripartite window, the columns each formed by a caduceus surmounted by a mask; rusticated keystone. All windows are hornless sashes with glazing bars. Ground floor windows with gauged brick heads, those in projecting bays with triple keystones and lugged cills. 1st floor windows have cambered heads and all with triple keystones. Central entablature inscribed "Metropolitan Convalescent Institution/Instituted AD MDCCCXLI/ Supported by Voluntary Contributions". Left hand wing inscribed "Enlarged AD MDCCCLXI" ; right hand wing inscribed "The Marner Wing Erected AD MDCCCLXVIII" Rear facade gault brick, C20 flat roofed extensions not of special architectural interest.
History: The Metropolitan Convalescent Institution was founded by Theodore Monro, a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, who, appalled at the lack of convalescent facilities for the sick poor, arranged, with two of his friends, to have patients from London sent to recover with families in Harrow Weald, where his elder brother was vicar. A meeting in 1841 fom1ally brought the MCI into existence and the old workhouse at Carshalton was refurbished as a temporary home. By the late 1840s a fund had been started to raise money for a purpose-built home in the country .Lord Ellesmere became president of the charity in 1850 and donated 5 acres of land at Walton on Thames. This is a very early example of this type of hospital and served its original purpose until 1963.
Listing NGR: TQ0935564459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471794
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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