NEWMARKET GENERAL HOSPITAL

NEWMARKET GENERAL HOSPITAL, EXNING ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1193799
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: NEWMARKET GENERAL HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: NEWMARKET GENERAL HOSPITAL, EXNING ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1193799
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:: NEWMARKET GENERAL HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: NEWMARKET GENERAL HOSPITAL, EXNING ROAD

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:: NEWMARKET GENERAL HOSPITAL, EXNING ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Newmarket
National Grid Reference:: TL 63767 64160

Details

TL 66 SW NEWMARKET EXNING ROAD (North East side)

177/4/91 Newmarket General Hospital (Formerly listed as: EXNING ROAD (North East side) Newmarket General Hospital quadrangular block containing Administration, Nurses Homes A and B, and Training School)

GV 26/06/84 II

Also known as: White Lodge Hospital EXNING ROAD

Workhouse, now disused hospital. 1837, with later C19 and C20 alterations. Yellow brick, with ashlar and brick dressings and slate roofs. Coped brick side wall and ridge stacks. Plinth, dentillated eaves. 2 storeys, with ranges of different heights. 19 windows, arranged 3:4:4:5:3. Windows are mainly round headed glazing bar sashes. Central entrance block flanked by side ranges with end pavilions. Returns enclosing a courtyard. Higher entrance block has first floor and impost bands and pedimented gable. Rear gable has a datestone and a square wooden bell turret with round arched openings and a weather vane in the shape of a racehorse. Slightly projecting centre bay with elliptical arched carriage opening, now panelled and with a glazing bar fanlight. On each side, a window. All these openings have imposts and keystones. Above, 4 windows arranged 1:2:1. Beyond, on each side, a canted brick bay window, c1902, with round arched openings. To left, 5 windows. To right, an inserted door, then 3 windows. Above, 4 glazing bar sashes with brick flat arches. To right, 5 similar windows, and some later insertions. End pavilions have 3 windows on each floor, with impost bands. Returns have similar fenestration minus the bands. Rear ranges have altered fenestration below, and regular fenestration above. Wide bracketed eaves to inner elevations, protecting former first floor walkway. The rear ranges were originally linked by 2 further ranges, forming 2 enclosed yards, only part of on of these linking ranges survives, reduced to a single storey.

Listing NGR: TL6376764160

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Legacy System number:: 275651
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.