Kitchen Block of Townlands Hospital
KITCHEN BLOCK OF TOWNLANDS HOSPITAL, YORK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047706
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Kitchen Block of Townlands Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- KITCHEN BLOCK OF TOWNLANDS HOSPITAL, YORK ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047706
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Kitchen Block of Townlands Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- KITCHEN BLOCK OF TOWNLANDS HOSPITAL, YORK 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:
- KITCHEN BLOCK OF TOWNLANDS HOSPITAL, YORK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Henley-on-Thames
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 75714 82848
Details
1. YORK ROAD
5355 Kitchen Block of Townlands
Hospital
SU 7582 1/500
II
2.
Late C18 altered. Three ranges around a courtyard and part of the former workhouse. The N range is of 2 storeys plus attic in the roof; the wings are each 2 storeys. N range is 5 bays wide and of red brick. First floor with open arcaded loggia over which is a band of blue bricks. Above the arch of the 4th bay, a tablet reading 'This House was erected AD 1790'. 1st floor with 2 sash windows, a flank window painted to look like a sash window, a casement window and one modern metal casement window, all with chains of blue bricks between them. 4 dormer windows in the roof, 3 of them with their original glazing bars. The wings left and right are of chequered brick and considerably altered as to fenestration. The E range has in addition 2 modern gabled porches (one stocked) rising through 2 storeys.
Listing NGR: SU7575882737
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246384
- 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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