Bridgwater Hospital (Centre Block Only)
BRIDGWATER HOSPITAL (CENTRE BLOCK ONLY), SALMON PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187299
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Bridgwater Hospital (Centre Block Only)
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGWATER HOSPITAL (CENTRE BLOCK ONLY), SALMON PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187299
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Bridgwater Hospital (Centre Block Only)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGWATER HOSPITAL (CENTRE BLOCK ONLY), SALMON PARADE
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:
- BRIDGWATER HOSPITAL (CENTRE BLOCK ONLY), SALMON PARADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgwater
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 30156 37009
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST3037 SALMON PARADE 736-1/6/159 (East side) 16/12/74 Bridgwater Hospital (centre block only)
GV II
Hospital. 1813, refronted 1876. Flemish-bond brick with stone parapet, cornices, quoins, architraves, porch and plinth. Rectangular plan with later additions. 3 storeys; 6-window range. Horned 2/2-pane sash windows. A central block with cornice has BRIDGWATER INFIRMARY in raised letters flanked by a parapet balustrade of open circles; the dentilled cornice below it is returned to the sides; windows to the second floor are set in eared and shouldered architraves above a cill block with SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS below the central 4 windows and continued as a cill band returned at the quoins. The first floor has moulded cornices to shouldered architraves; the ground floor has segmental arches and moulded keystones to eared and shouldered architraves which reach the plinth and have aprons with recessed panels between cill and plinth. To right of centre is a Doric porch with triglyph frieze, paired columns to the front and pilasters to the rear; the cornice is continued as a moulded string course returned at the quoins. Above the porch is a single-storey glazed room, probably c1920, with a pediment to the gable which cuts into a former architrave. To the inside left is a late C19 canted bay with a dentilled cornice and to far left is an architrave to a former door, now a C20 window. INTERIOR: the entrance hall has a fine c1876 staircase, open-well, open string with a swept rail and cast-iron balusters. Some semicircular arches, moulded architraves to doors, parts of a cornice, one window to the rear with panelled shutters to a splayed architrave and a 6-panel door remain. History: In 1813 a public meeting decided that a medical institution be established "for the relief of the labouring poor requiring medical and surgical assistance". In 1820 it was agreed to purchase "a spacious house and garden" in Salmon Lane for »700. The infirmary was then supported by voluntary contributions. Alterations and additions were made in 1862, the adjoining house to the left was later purchased for »205, and additions were again made in 1876 and 1895. A photograph of 1865 shows the original early C19 houses. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South and West Somerset: London: 1958-: 99; Somerset: London: 1910-: 138; VCH: Somerset: London: 1992-: 228).
Listing NGR: ST3015637009
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374002
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958), 99
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1992), 228
Kellys Directory in Somerset, (1910), 138
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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