THE LONDON HOSPITAL

THE LONDON HOSPITAL, WHITECHAPEL ROAD E1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065788
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: THE LONDON HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: THE LONDON HOSPITAL, WHITECHAPEL ROAD E1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065788
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: THE LONDON HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: THE LONDON HOSPITAL, WHITECHAPEL ROAD E1

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE LONDON HOSPITAL, WHITECHAPEL ROAD E1

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 34690 81758

Details

WHITECHAPEL ROAD E1 1. 4431 (South Side) The London Hospital

TQ 3481 15/523 21.9.73

II GV

2. Begun 1751. Architect Boulton Mainwaring. Later alterations and additions. Brick with slate roof. Central advanced block of 7 bays with pediment over 5 bays, clock in tympanum and balustraded parapet. Arcaded ground floor with rusticated brick arches. Windows separated by pilasters through 1st and 2nd floors with 2 pairs at each end. Eastern reveal had round arched window with tracery and similar one remains on facade. Flanking recessed 6 bay wings to east and west 4 storeys and dormers leading to eastern advanced wings of 11 bays. Yellow brick, stone cornice to parapet. Band above 1st floor. Gauged flat arches to recessed windows.

Nos 138 to 174 (even) form a group with The London Hospital.

Listing NGR: TQ3469081758

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Legacy System number:: 206369
Legacy System:: LBS

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