Somerset Nuffield Hospital
SOMERSET NUFFIELD HOSPITAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060481
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Somerset Nuffield Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- SOMERSET NUFFIELD HOSPITAL
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00167/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060481
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Somerset Nuffield Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOMERSET NUFFIELD HOSPITAL
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:
- SOMERSET NUFFIELD HOSPITAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Taunton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 21012 26090
Details
ST22NW STAPLEGROVE CP
5/241 Somerset Nuffield Hospital
II
Shown on OS map as Staplegrove Elm. House; now hospital. Circa 1835, possibly by Richard Carver, enlarged early 1970s. Rendered with Ham stone dressings, ashlar plinth, flat string course, hipped slate roof, overhanging eaves carried on shaped brackets, moulded cornice, central sedimented bay breaking forward slightly with moulded brackets around the deep eaves of the tympanum, brick stacks on returns. Double pile block with extended service wing right, 2 storeys, 2:1:2 bays; all window openings with moulded surrounds, cut on first floor by string course, 9-pane sash windows, ground floor sash windows, architrave cut by plinth but also enclosing ashlar apron below windows. central recessed half-glazed double doors with rectangular light fronted by ashlar Ham stone Ionic screen carrying entablature, Lower service wing right, slate roof with coped verges, 2 storeys, 2 bays 16-pane sash windows, plank door right, extended 2 bays with C20 addition. Interior not seen, said to contain good contemporary firegrate in reception. C20 structure adjoining hospital not included. It became a hospital in the early 1970s.
Listing NGR: ST2101226090
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270691
- 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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