SAFFRON WALDEN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

SAFFRON WALDEN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, RADWINTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196235
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1982
List Entry Name:: SAFFRON WALDEN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: SAFFRON WALDEN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, RADWINTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196235
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1982
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: SAFFRON WALDEN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: SAFFRON WALDEN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, RADWINTER 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:: SAFFRON WALDEN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, RADWINTER ROAD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Saffron Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL 55004 38614

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5438 RADWINTER ROAD 669-1/2/324 (North side) 10/09/82 Saffron Walden Community Hospital (Formerly Listed as: RADWINTER ROAD Saffron Walden Hospital)

II

Union workhouse, now hospital. 1837. James Clephan, after Sampson Kempthorne's model plan of 1835. Minor later C19 additions to N and NW. Yellow stockbrick, main roofs C20 asbestos sheet, lower roofs slate. Some stacks rebuilt in red brick. Cruciform plan, the N and S wings longer. 3 storeys with single storey ranges enclosing courtyards in angles. Ocatagonal central block, square pavilions terminating each wing, stacks at apex of roofs, that to W missing. 2-course raised string band at level of springing of window arches to each storey. Round-arched windows grouped in threes with some additional single windows with small-paned metal glazing with radial hopper-heads; some C20 replacement and alterations, especially to S entrance elevation. INTERIOR retains cantilevered stone stairs with iron balustrades. Slightly later detached casualty ward to SW, now workshop and stores. Slate roof, yellow brick, single storey, stack to NE corner. High level round timber pivoting windows to sides, some altered to W. INTERIOR with central axial corridor, sliding doors to former cells each with iron ventilation grille above. 2 cells survive intact. Late C20 linked extension to E. Built for 311 inmates, cost approx 7500 pounds. (Kelly's Directory of Essex, 1866; Saffron Walden Union Minute Book VI, 1835-37: G/SW/M1).

Listing NGR: TL5500438614

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 370713
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Saffron Walden Union Minute Book Volume I, (1835-37)
'Kellys Directory' in Essex, (1866)

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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.