WESTERN FACADE OF DORKING HOSPITAL

WESTERN FACADE OF DORKING HOSPITAL, SOUTH TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229821
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: WESTERN FACADE OF DORKING HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: WESTERN FACADE OF DORKING HOSPITAL, SOUTH TERRACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229821
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: WESTERN FACADE OF DORKING HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: WESTERN FACADE OF DORKING HOSPITAL, SOUTH TERRACE

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:: WESTERN FACADE OF DORKING HOSPITAL, SOUTH TERRACE

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Mole Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 16502 48718

Details

SOUTH TERRACE 1. 1049 Western facade of Dorking General Hospital TQ 1648 5/206

II

2. 1839-41. W Shearburn, architect. Originally the Institution or Workhouse. 5 bays. Stuccoed. Pedimented centre and wings, both projecting. 2 storeys. Centre wing with 1st storey of 3 windows projecting and supported by prostyle portico of 4 Doric columns and 2 pillars (and 2 returning columns) with entablature over. Central doorway on ground floor flanked by 2 sash windows. Door with rectangular fanlight; door with glazing above; flat hood over on brackets. Entablature above portico returning behind and then crossing recessed bay on either side of central wing to form a parapet. Recessed bay of 2 storeys. 1 window above and door below (identical to central door). Cornice and main parapet. End wings of 2 storeys and 1 window with rectangular pediment over and band above 1st floor. All windows sash with glazing bars intact.

Listing NGR: TQ1650248718

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Legacy System number:: 404645
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.