Alnutts Hospital and Attached Forecourt Walls and Gate
ALNUTTS HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATE, B4526
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1194275
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Alnutts Hospital and Attached Forecourt Walls and Gate
- Statutory Address:
- ALNUTTS HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATE, B4526
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1194275
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Alnutts Hospital and Attached Forecourt Walls and Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALNUTTS HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATE, B4526
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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:
- ALNUTTS HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATE, B4526
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Goring Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- SU6569779447
Details
GORING HEATH B4526 SU67NE (North side) 9/90 Alnutt's Hospital and attached 24/10/51 forecourt walls and gate
GV I
Almshouses. c.1724. Grey brick with red brick dressings; plain tile roof; brick stacks. U-shaped plan. Single storey and attic; Central 13 bay range with cross wings to left and right. Chapel to central 3 bays. Central 6-panel door with segmental head and flat hood on brackets. Leaded overlight above with segmental rubbed brick head with keystone. Segmental headed leaded cross windows to left and right. Doric pilasters to each bay supporting shaped brick cornice. Shaped gable with central plaque and clock. Lead-roofed cupola to ridge of cross-gable. Single-storey and attic ranges to left and right. Segmental headed 6-panel doors to left and right of centre. 3 segmental-headed cross-windows to left and right. 6-panel segmental-headed doors to left and right, hipped full dormers to roof. Internal stacks to rear. Chapel interior: Nave and chancel with bow end. Original pews, pulpit with sounding board and altar rail. Busts of Henry Alnutt and Richard Clement. Subsidiary wall to forecourt with central wrought iron gateway with overthrow. History: Founded by Henry Alnutt, Lord Mayor of London in 1724. Richard Clement was his executor and built the Almshouses. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.616-7).
Listing NGR: SU6570079441
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247308
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 616-7
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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