Screen Wall and Lodge Cottages at Meneage Hospital

SCREEN WALL AND LODGE COTTAGES AT MENEAGE HOSPITAL, MENEAGE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196467
Date first listed:
22-May-1972
List Entry Name:
Screen Wall and Lodge Cottages at Meneage Hospital
Statutory Address:
SCREEN WALL AND LODGE COTTAGES AT MENEAGE HOSPITAL, MENEAGE STREET

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196467
Date first listed:
22-May-1972
List Entry Name:
Screen Wall and Lodge Cottages at Meneage Hospital
Statutory Address 1:
SCREEN WALL AND LODGE COTTAGES AT MENEAGE HOSPITAL, MENEAGE STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SCREEN WALL AND LODGE COTTAGES AT MENEAGE HOSPITAL, MENEAGE STREET

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 66152 27216

Details

HELSTON

SW6627 MENEAGE STREET 631-1/5/190 (North East side) 22/05/72 Screen wall and lodge cottages at Meneage Hospital

GV II

Screen wall and lodge cottages of former workhouse (Meneage Hospital (qv)). 1855 date on keystone of gateway. Local freestone ashlar front, granite ashlar piers and parapets, other walls rubble with granite dressings; dry slate roofs, the front roofs now bitumen grouted; ridge ventilators. 2 blocks flanking carriageway linked by entrance gateway, left-hand block with axial wing at rear. Single storey; 3:1:3-bay screen and entrance front with pilaster piers dividing bays. Tall narrow window opening central to each bay with projecting key and impost block and original 4-pane sashes; taller central bay with large moulded round-arched doorway with moulded keyblock and imposts and entablature with moulded cornice to parapet. Other elevations have openings framed by monoliths; 4 original 12-pane hornless sashes to left-hand block, also with coped gable at rear right with central round-arched window with original tripartite sash with spoked concentric fanlight head. INTERIOR not inspected. The screen wall and lodge cottages form an integral part of the overall design of the hospital group.

Listing NGR: SW6615227216

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
385542
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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