Meneage Hospital
MENEAGE HOSPITAL, MENEAGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196466
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Meneage Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- MENEAGE HOSPITAL, MENEAGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196466
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Meneage Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- MENEAGE HOSPITAL, MENEAGE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- MENEAGE HOSPITAL, THE 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:
- MENEAGE HOSPITAL, MENEAGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MENEAGE HOSPITAL, THE PARADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helston
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 66191 27245
Details
HELSTON
SW6627 MENEAGE STREET 631-1/5/188 (North East side) 22/05/72 Meneage Hospital
GV II
Former workhouse. Probably 1855, the same as entrance gateway with datestone (qv). Local rubble with granite dressings including plinth, monolithic jambs and square eaves cornice; dry Delabole slate roofs, hipped except for granite-coped central rear gable with dressed granite stack, other stacks brick: 2 axial stacks and 1 lateral stack; cast-iron ogee gutters. Symmetrical E-shaped plan with central tower porch at the front, 2 shallow rear wings and deep central 2-storey wing plus single-storey lean-to clasping the front corners. 3 storeys; nearly symmetrical 1:6:1:6:1-bay articulated front. Some original 12-pane hornless sashes, some horned copies, otherwise later transomed windows with small panes and two C20 1st-floor extensions carried on concrete piers in front of 3 bays at left and right, 1 bay from the porch; mid-floor stair windows near angle on left and altered on right, otherwise original openings. Taller porch has round-arched doorway with original fanlight; round-arched window to each floor above, impost band to 1st floor and blind oculus under moulded eaves of pyramidal roof. End cross wings have tripartite windows in wide openings to upper floor. Right-hand lean-to on right has extra wing projecting forward in front of angle. Other elevations are unaltered except for 2 small C20 single-storey additions at rear left; many original 12-pane hornless sashes and tripartite sashes including central round-arched window of central rear gable with concentric fanlight head, other windows replaced with top-opening windows with glazing bars. Side walls are 3:1:3 bays with central entrance and stair bays. Central rear wing is 2 storeys with two 1st-floor tripartite sashes to each side wall and 1 similar ground-floor window. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SW6619127245
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385540
- 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.
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