Jane Walker Hospital
JANE WALKER HOSPITAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233618
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Jane Walker Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- JANE WALKER HOSPITAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233618
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Jane Walker Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- JANE WALKER HOSPITAL
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:
- JANE WALKER HOSPITAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nayland-with-Wissington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 95163 34310
Details
The following buildings shall be added to the list:-
NAYLAND WITH WISSINGTON - TL 93 SE 15/10000 Jane Walker Hospital GV II
Tuberculosis hospital, now psychiatric hospital. Circa 1898-1900 by Smith and Brewer (with Dr Jane Walker as medical superintendent) for the East Anglian Sanatorium Company. Roughcast brick with hipped and gable-ended plain tile roofs with deep eaves. Rendered brick axial and gable end stacks with tapered pots. Plan: Butterfly plan facing SE: with wards at front and axial passages behind in the wings, centre of the front originally open and with staircase behind; main entrance in gable end of west wing. The central rear wing contains entrance and offices etc, branching from it the kitchen wing on right and hall on left, attached to which is the chapel (qv). Late Victorian Free Style. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Long SE front 1:6:1:3:1:6:1 bays. Centre 3 bays with giant polygonal piers, originally open on ground floor. Wings at obtuse angle with canted end bays and 6 windows between divided by giant pilasters with paved eaves brackets above. Small gables and balconies over end bays, wide flat roof dormers, centre dormer with segmental pediment and round light, behind which a cupola with broken cornice over paired columns and small angular dome with large weathervane. West gable end has tall entrance with battered buttresses and large segmental headed overlight; east end has broad lozenge-shaped stack off centre with doorway and oriel in arched recess. Deep eaves and flat roof dormers at rear. All casement windows with glazing bars. Hall has weatherboarded gables jettied out on brackets, battered buttresses and large semi-circular window in gable over entrance. Interior: Plastered polygonal barrel-vaulted hall. Double-return main staircase on 2 floors with short octagonal tapered columns and thick stick balusters. Sources: 1. The Builder 29 November 1902, pp 496-7 2. A S Gray, Edwardian Architects, p334 3. A Service, Edwardian Architecture, p209
Listing NGR: TL9516334310
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278702
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gray, A S, Edwardian Architecture A Biographical Dictionary, (1985), 334
Service, A, Edwardian Architecture a Handbook to Building Design in Britain 1890-1914, (1977), 209
The Builder in 29 November, (1902), 496-7
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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