TOWER HOUSE AT WARLEY HOSPITAL

TOWER HOUSE AT WARLEY HOSPITAL, WARLEY HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197258
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: TOWER HOUSE AT WARLEY HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: TOWER HOUSE AT WARLEY HOSPITAL, WARLEY HILL

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Date:: 2006-08-19
Reference:: IOE01/15888/04
Rights:: © Mr Richard Pepper. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197258
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: TOWER HOUSE AT WARLEY HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER HOUSE AT WARLEY HOSPITAL, WARLEY 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.

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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:: TOWER HOUSE AT WARLEY HOSPITAL, WARLEY HILL

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

County:: Essex
District:: Brentwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 59044 92190

Details

BRENTWOOD

TQ59SE WARLEY HILL, Warley 723-1/8/150 (West side (off)) Tower House at Warley Hospital

GV II

Water tower and house attached. Completed 1885. Red brick with burnt headers in diaper pattern, stone door and window dressings, tile roof. T-shaped plan. Tower at W end on central axis, rectangular, 4 storeys, machicolated, projecting parapet, conical roof. Ground floor doorway on S side, 4-centred arched head and independent stone hood above boarded C19 door. N and W faces have windows with similar arched heads, now boarded over. First floor, deep depressed arches with 4-centred heads containing mullioned and transomed windows and paired lancet windows below. Above, each face with central slit vent on 2 upper floors. House, one storey and attic S elevation, buttressed cross-wing at E end with crow stepped gable, ground-floor mullioned window of 4 lights under moulded 4-centred arch, attic gable window of 2 lights with label, to W, doorway with 4-centred arched head, boarded door, 4-centred arched window now boarded over, wall with parapet rising to tower by crow stepping. Tile hung dormer window, (boarded over). N elevation, junction of tower and house covered by C20 addition. Central dormer window behind parapet, similar to one on S elevation, doorway and contiguous side windows, square framed and now boarded over, door cut into window framing. E cross-wing - C20 addition with crow stepped gable to match S gable. E elevation, central segment headed doorway, door of 4 panels, upper 2 glazed, lower 2 flush with beaded edges, small adjacent segment headed window (boarded over), central `dropped' dormer window of 3 casements with glazing bars, each 1x3 panes. Stack above, upper section, stone, embattled with recessed arched panels. N end of range, C20 brickwork, C20 iron framed windows, 2 on ground floor and one at attic level (boarded over). Warley Hospital (qv), Tower House and The Lodge (qv) form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5904492190

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Legacy System number:: 373569
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.