NORMANSFIELD HOSPITAL

NORMANSFIELD HOSPITAL, KINGSTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1065379
Date first listed:: 25-May-1983
List Entry Name:: NORMANSFIELD HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: NORMANSFIELD HOSPITAL, KINGSTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1065379
Date first listed:: 25-May-1983
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: NORMANSFIELD HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: NORMANSFIELD HOSPITAL, KINGSTON ROAD

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.

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

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:: NORMANSFIELD HOSPITAL, KINGSTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Richmond upon Thames (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 17259 70177

Details

TQ 17 SE 22-/4/14 25/5/83

KINGSTON ROAD, Teddington Normansfield Hospital (formerly listed as 'The Entertainment Hall (private theatre)')

GV II*

Former private sanatorium for children with learning disabilities. 1866, with additions of 1872, 1877 and 1891. A private theatre, designed by Rowland Plumbe, was added to the north wing 1877-9. Pale yellow stock brick, with stone dressings. Brick quoins and rustication. Slated roofs with tall brick chimney stacks. Central 1866 section of 4 stories in French Second Empire style has 2 sets of paired sashes under moulded stone heads on each floor from ground to 2nd which is surmounted by a bracketed cornice. Domed fishscale slate roof with round-arched dormers and scroll-pattern cast iron balustrade. Between the ground floor sashes, a bas-relief plaque depicting Langdon Down; corresponding at 1st floor, a coat-of-arms. Flanking this block are two 3-window 3-storey additions of 1872, the right-hand containing the stone-cased main entrance flanked by canted bay windows to the ground and 1st floor; ground floor windows with patterned glazing and part stained glass. Attached to this wing is a fine octagonal patterned iron and glass conservatory. Left hand addition in similar but less elaborate style. Flanking these additions are plainer wings of 1877, that at to the left having twisted cast iron lamp standards to an entrance. To the rear of the left win is the Entertainment Hall with round-arched windows and diaper patterned slated roof. Attached to this are the former dairy buildings and coach yard. A small tower has a bracketed pyramidal roof and the taller one a similar roof with gabled dormer and elaborate wrought-iron weather vane. To the rear of the right wing a clock tower with pyramidal roof, dated 1891 on the foundation stone laid by Langdon Down. Behind this an elaborate cast-iron fire escape. Interior: entrance hall has patterned Minton-tiled floor, dog-leg, open-tread stair with patterned cast-iron balusters and wreathed handrail and patterned, coved cornice. To the left, the dining room has very fine decoration and an elaborate chimneypiece in the Aesthetic manner. The door has a matching coved overshelf and gilded panels of bay leaves; also a brass plate depicting apples. Below the Lincrusta ceiling with patterned cornice is a tine deep, gilded frieze depicting swags of fruit and flowers with birds; a further frieze of fruit etc. , runs above the skirting board. The bay window has patterned stained glass and two panels depicting females in classical dress. To the right of the hall is the drawing room with gilded Lincrusta ceiling, elaborate gilded cornice and deep gilded floral frieze. Windows with patterned stained glass. Good Art Nouveau light fittings. Flanking the carved marble fireplace with gilded overmantel mirror are 2-leaf doors with stained glass overlights leading into the conservatory .Off the conservatory, a small room with elaborate Lyncrusta ceiling and deep floral frieze. The Entertainment Hall: is a particularly fine and rare example of a surviving private theatre, the proscenium and stage reflecting, as a scaled down model, the regular theatres of the day. The proscenium is richly coloured and gilded; pairs of proscenium doors, approached by steps with ornamental wrought iron balustrades, to either side of the stage are an unusual feature. The doors have gilded and painted panels depicting flora and fauna. Above are fine figure paintings set in Gothic arched recesses. The stage is raked and most of the original equipment, scenery and accommodation remains. The scene grooves are an extremely rare survival and unique in London (possibly in Britain), in that they are in working order. The auditorium has a flat floor, fair-faced brick walls and tall, round-arched windows beneath which are elaborate cast-iron radiator grilles matching the balustrade to the deep raked balcony across the rear of the hall. The roof is of pine with open trusses and in the centre has an elaborate and complete gas sunburner. History: In 1868 Dr John L H Langdon Down, having spent 10 years at the Royal Earlswood Asylum for children with learning disabilities and researched into the disease he called Mongolism (now known as Down's Syndrome), decided to open his own private home for the children of wealthy and aristocratic parents. He purchased a family house built 2 years earlier, standing in parkland and never occupied. He eventually extended it to house 115 patients in non-institutional style; they were trained and encouraged in a variety of activities, rather than simply being confined and treated. The hospital remained privately run by the Langdon Down family until 1948 when it was sold to the NHS. The hospital entertainment hall or theatre is listed in a higher grade because of its national and architectural importance as a theatre, the remainder of the hospital building is listed at a higher grade for its historic interest associated with Dr Langdon Down.

Listing NGR: TQ1725970177

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Legacy System number:: 205539
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.