Former administration block, Powick Hospital
Barrington Grange, Harrison Close, Powick, WR2 4QD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166952
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former administration block, Powick Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- Barrington Grange, Harrison Close, Powick, WR2 4QD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166952
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former administration block, Powick Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- Barrington Grange, Harrison Close, Powick, WR2 4QD
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:
- Barrington Grange, Harrison Close, Powick, WR2 4QD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Powick
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 82030 50620
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/05/2020
SO 85 SW
3/86
POWICK CP
Harrison Close
Barrington Grange
Former Administration Block Powick Hospital
(Formerly listed as Administration Block Powick Hospital, POWICK CP)
II
Offices. 1852. Brick with limestone dressings and slate roof. Italianate style. A symmetrical composition of four storeys and three bays with chamfered quoins and bracketed cornice. Windows have architraves. Those on the ground floor are sashed with glazing bars and have cornices. Those on the first floor have eight-pane sashes, pediments, and a sill band. Second and third floor windows are sashed, with sill band to those on the second floor. Doorcase has engaged Tuscan columns and triglyph frieze, framing a doorway with round head, moulded imposts, and keystone. Chimney, in middle of hipped roof, has stone cap with quoined base below panels with arched recesses, and a cornice. Return walls treated in a manner similar to main facade. In 1879 Edward Elgar became Conductor of the staff band of the County Lunatic Asylum, which later became Powick Hospital.
Listing NGR: SO8203050620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 153404
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Grundy, M, Elgars Beloved Country, (1985), 11
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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