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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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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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 38699
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.