F BLOCK, ST MARY'S WING, WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL

F BLOCK, ST MARY'S WING, WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL, HIGHGATE HILL

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195634
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: F BLOCK, ST MARY'S WING, WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: F BLOCK, ST MARY'S WING, WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL, HIGHGATE HILL

User submitted image — Uploaded by Julian Osley This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2005-05-14
Reference:: IOE01/14001/21
Rights:: © Mr Stewart Monk. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195634
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: F BLOCK, ST MARY'S WING, WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: F BLOCK, ST MARY'S WING, WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL, HIGHGATE HILL

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: F BLOCK, ST MARY'S WING, WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL, HIGHGATE HILL

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28995 86963

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ2986NW HIGHGATE HILL 635-1/12/499 (West side) F block, St Mary's Wing, Whittington Hospital

II

Former Smallpox and Vaccination Hospital. 1848-50 to the designs of Samuel Daukes, with later alterations. Paid for by the Great Northern Railway, whose terminus at King's Cross involved the demolition of an earlier Smallpox and Vaccination Hospital. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, with some purple brick used in the rear elevations, and dressings of Bath stone except for the portico which is of Portland stone; cast-iron; roof of asbestos slate so far as visible. Three storeys over basement; the principal front has a centrepiece of five windows, ranges of seven windows to either side, and wings of three windows to either end. A three-bay Roman Doric portico has been added to the central entrance, the outer columns paired and the central bay wider, with entablature and balustraded parapet; the entrance itself is round-arched with cornice and fanlight, moulded stone springing band, archivolt and keystone, and is flanked by and linked to two round-arched windows similarly detailed; the outer bays of the centrepiece at this level are round-arched and decorated with chamfered rustication; upper floors have chamfered quoins; first-floor windows flat-arched with stone architraves, the three middle windows also having cornices; panel above these windows lettered 'SMALL POX & VACCINATION HOSPITAL.'; dentil cornice, now simplified; in the attic storey, formerly an open loggia, the three middle bays are set forward under a pediment, with a bracketed clock between two round-arched windows with springing band, archivolts and keystones; the outer windows are flat-arched with shouldered and eared architraves under a parapet; blank windows to returns. The seven-window ranges have stone plinth; round-arched windows to the ground floor with springing band, archivolts and keystones; storey band; moulded sill band to the first-floor windows which are flat-arched with stone architraves; moulded sill band to the second floor windows which are round-arched with springing band, archivolts and keystones; cornice and panelled parapet; hipped roofs. The wings have chamfered quoins, fenestration as for the seven-window ranges, with blank panels over first-floor windows, dentil cornice acting as a sill band to second floor windows, blank windows to returns, cornice and panelled parapet. Left- and right-hand returns have centrepieces of three windows projecting slightly under a pediment, with chamfered quoins and wings of three windows to either side; the central first-floor window also has a pediment; dentil cornice continued from wings, cornice and panelled parapet. On the left-hand return, there is a cast-iron fire-escape of late C19 date with palm-leaf capitals and ornate newels and balusters in the right-hand bay of the centrepiece. Sashes of original design to centrepiece (ground and first floors), right-hand seven-window range (ground and first floors), left-hand seven-window range (first floor), wings, and left- and right-hand returns.The rear elevations have three wings corresponding to the centrepiece and side wings, with simpler detailing and some use of purple brick in the lower parts; single-storey blocks, of C19 date, in the angles of the wings, altered in part. The interior has been largely altered, though the first floor appears to reflect the alteration of the building to nurses' bedrooms and administration in 1900. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ2899586963

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 369010
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.