Lord Leycester Hospital

Lord Leycester Hospital, High Street, Warwick, CV34 4BH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1035441
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: Lord Leycester Hospital
Statutory Address:: Lord Leycester Hospital, High Street, Warwick, CV34 4BH

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Date:: 2002-09-26
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1035441
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: Lord Leycester Hospital
Statutory Address 1:: Lord Leycester Hospital, High Street, Warwick, CV34 4BH

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

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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:: Lord Leycester Hospital, High Street, Warwick, CV34 4BH

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Warwick
National Grid Reference:: SP 28021 64742

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 April 2025 to amend name and address and reformat the text to current standards

SP 2864 NW 1/290

HIGH STREET (north side) Lord Leycester Hospital

(Formerly listed as Hospital of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester)

10.1.53.

GV I Built round a courtyard. South range with Guildhall circa 1483. East range before 1400. North range with Master's House probably medieval, much restored with some C16 partitions and south wall. West wing with King James's Banqueting Hall, late medieval with modern facsimile west wall, fine early open timber roof with tiebeams. For full history see Transactions of Birtaimham Archaeological Society, Vol LX, 1936.

Originally built by the Guild of St George and the Holy Trinity in C15, and taken by Lord Leicester in 1571 for the purpose of forming a pensioners' hospital. Two storey plus attic. Heavy timber framing of various types, in fair state of repair, much of which is original close set studding. Extensive restoration in C18 and also about 1850, when timber framing was uncovered by removal of plaster and two small flush gables were added to the High Street elevation. Restored roof, mainly of old tiles.

Internal features of considerable interest include open quadrangle with covered gallery, Guildhall (right hand side of main entrance), which was converted to the Brethren's Quarters in C18. VCH, viii, pp. 423-6.

Nos 54 and 56, and the Lord Leycester Hospital, in High Street (North Side): Nos 1 and 1A Brook Street, and West Gate and St James's Chapel, all form a group.

Listing NGR: SP2802164742

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Legacy System number:: 307506
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1969)
'Transactions of the Birmingham Archaeological Society' in Transactions of the Birmingham Archaeological Society, , Vol. 60, (1936)

Legal

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