Beech House, Oak House and Linden House at Upton Hospital
BEECH HOUSE, OAK HOUSE AND LINDEN HOUSE AT UPTON HOSPITAL, ALBERT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113371
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Beech House, Oak House and Linden House at Upton Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- BEECH HOUSE, OAK HOUSE AND LINDEN HOUSE AT UPTON HOSPITAL, ALBERT STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-05-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/03077/23
- Rights:
- © Mr J.H. Dodgson. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113371
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Beech House, Oak House and Linden House at Upton Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEECH HOUSE, OAK HOUSE AND LINDEN HOUSE AT UPTON HOSPITAL, ALBERT 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:
- BEECH HOUSE, OAK HOUSE AND LINDEN HOUSE AT UPTON HOSPITAL, ALBERT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Slough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 97770 79448
Details
SU 97 NE SLOUGH ALBERT STREET (north side)
4/6 Beech House, Oak House, And Linden House At Upton Hospital (SU 9776 7942)
II
Union Workhouse, now hospital 1835-6, by Sampson Kempthorne. Stock brick, rendered ground floor to south with banded rustication, and hipped slate roofs. Cruciform plan with central octagonal staircase block, and 3 storey block to south with lower flanking wings. South front: 3 storeys with cill bands and deep eaves. 5 bays with glazing bar sashes, those on first floor with blind hoods. Central half glazed door with triangular pedimented hood on brackets. Flanking 2 storey one bay wings. Later flanking one storey wings slightly set back with louvred clerestorys, scattered glazing bar sashes and half glazed doors. The Mrs. Sinkins Pink was first raised here circa 1880 by the Master of the workhouse and named after his wife, the Matron. B.O.E, (Bucks, p.238; The History Of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973, pp. 115-6; The Story Of Slough, Judith Hunter, Local Heritage Books, 1983, pp.58-60.
Listing NGR: SU9777079448
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38699
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, (1960), 238
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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