St Margaret's Hospital
St Margaret's Hospittal, Hamilton Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232831
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Margaret's Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- St Margaret's Hospittal, Hamilton Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232831
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Jul-1975
- List Entry Name:
- St Margaret's Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- St Margaret's Hospittal, Hamilton Road
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:
- St Margaret's Hospittal, Hamilton Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Taunton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 23846 24810
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 9 August 2022 to update the name and amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards
ST 2324 NE
13/12
HAMILTON ROAD (north side)
St Margaret's Hospital
(formerly listed as St Margaret's Leper Hospital, previously listed as St Margaret's)
4.6.52.
II*
Early leprosy hospital rebuilt in early C16.. Converted and occupied as almshouses 1612-1938. Restored by Rural Community Council and occupied by them since 1959. Long freestanding single storey building. Mostly of local shillet stone, now whitewashed. Thatched roof with attic rising to right. Thatch eaves on scrolled wrought-iron brackets to rear. Brick stack to right gable, stone parapet to left gable end. New oak supports to front verandah. Single and double leaded lights under wooden lintels. Original oak door frames with Tudor arched lintels. On front is a stone tablet with the arms of Abbot Bere of Glastonbury, the original restorer of the building.
Listing NGR: ST2384624810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269752
- 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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