Minehead Hospital
MINEHEAD HOSPITAL, THE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207970
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Minehead Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- MINEHEAD HOSPITAL, THE AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207970
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Minehead Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- MINEHEAD HOSPITAL, THE AVENUE
- Statutory Address 2:
- MINEHEAD 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:
- MINEHEAD HOSPITAL, THE AVENUE
- Statutory Address:
- MINEHEAD HOSPITAL, THE PARADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Minehead
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 96961 46298
Details
MINEHEAD
SS9646 THE PARADE 900-1/3/89 (North side) Minehead Hospital
GV II
Public hall, later a first World War hospital. 1888-9 by Piers St Aubyn. Snecked rubblestone with ashlar dressings, crested slate roof with stone stacks to gable ends and flanking the central gable. Rectangular plan. Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys with attics; symmetrical 6-window range. The 2 central ranges are stepped slightly forward under a high gable with moulded coping and a shield to the apex; a string course steps down at the sides and spans the building below a parapet. The central pointed-arched doorway is flanked by fan-vaulted supports to a canted balcony with pointed-arched panelling. Gauged stone pointed arches and hoodmoulds to two 2-light Decorated-style windows with transoms opening onto the balcony. 3-light flat-arched windows with reticulated tracery to the sides have transoms; above them are substantial original hipped dormers with C20 windows. The right return has 2 large Decorated-style pointed-arched windows. INTERIOR: the reception hall is altered. HISTORY: the Public Hall, the property of a company, was erected in 1888-9 at a cost of about »4,000. The large hall was used for concerts, dramatic performances etc, and sat 550 persons. A visually prominent building by a notable local architect. Included for group value. (Kelly's Directory: London: 1908-: 339).
Listing NGR: SS9696146298
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391248
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1908), 339
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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