Williton Hospital
WILLITON HOSPITAL, 51, LONG STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1057488
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Williton Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- WILLITON HOSPITAL, 51, LONG STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1057488
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Williton Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILLITON HOSPITAL, 51, LONG STREET
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:
- WILLITON HOSPITAL, 51, LONG STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Williton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 08231 41410
Details
ST04SE WILLITON CP LONG STREET (North side)
2/231 No 51 (Williton Hospital) (Previously listed as No 57)
22.5.69
GV II*
Workhouse now hospital, largely disused. 1838- 40 by George Gilbert Scott and William Moffatt for the Williton Poor Law Union. ashlar Bath stone entrance range, othwerwise squared and coursed red sandstone rubble, hipped slate roofs, brick stacks. Cruciform plan: central octagonal 4 storey block flanked by long 3 storey wings, linked by single storey ramps to entrance range with central pedimented gateway, single storey courtyard range at rear. Entrance range; single storey, 11 bays including central semi-circular arched opening, pedimented top, pilaster strips dividing bays, penultimate outer 2 bays break forward with hipped roofs, 12 pane sash windows, 16 pane sash window, projecting bays left, paired pointed arched openings in right 4 bays comprising chapel, entrances on inner walls of archway. Main range: octagonal 4 storey tower with 2 angled pedimented faces, coped verges, on facade, 2 to rear string, course with pilasters distinguish upper storey, 16 pane sash widows, 12 pane sash window on re-entrant angles, octagonal wooden lantern. flanked by 7 bay wings, end 2 bays breaking forward with hipped roof, mixed C19 fenestration, mostly many paned pivotal windows. Interior not viewed. The Williton Poor Law Union was forged in 1836; this is one of the best surving examples of the many workhouses built by Scott and Moffatt. (VCH Somerset, vol 5, forthcoming; photographs in NMR).
Listing NGR: ST0823141410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264997
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
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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