Former administration block, Powick Hospital

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:: Barrington Grange, Harrison Close, Powick, WR2 4QD

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Official list entry

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

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

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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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 153404
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Grundy, M, Elgars Beloved Country, (1985), 11

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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.