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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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 269752
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.