Children's Convalescent Home, Including Boundary Wall and Gates
CHILDREN'S CONVALESCENT HOME, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND GATES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243007
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Children's Convalescent Home, Including Boundary Wall and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- CHILDREN'S CONVALESCENT HOME, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND GATES
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/15085/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243007
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Children's Convalescent Home, Including Boundary Wall and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHILDREN'S CONVALESCENT HOME, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND GATES
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:
- CHILDREN'S CONVALESCENT HOME, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND GATES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marlborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SU1846269592
Details
MARLBOROUGH COMMON
1.
5407
(West Side)
Children's Convalescent
Home, including boundary
wall and gates
SU 1869 3/275
II
2.
1836. Former Union Workhouse. Apparently designed by W. Cooper an associate of Sir Gilbert Scott. Ashlar Bath stone. Pitched slate roofs with overhanging eaves on paired cut brackets. Grid-iron plan with octagonal crossing at centre. 2 storeys. Plain band above ground floor. Main elevation has 17 ranges of swivelling windows, those in centre 7 bays with vertical glazing bars only Centre 7 bays break forward, and centre 5 bays break again, and these are crowned by a pediment with wooden entablature, also on paired cut brackets, clasping buttresses at all angles. Unmoulded pediments on plain corbel blocks over 2 former entrance doors, of which 1 is not a window. Modern casement in ground floor central window, and 2 modern doors in central bays of flanking wings. Block flanking Common has 4 ranges of modern casements and 1 of original casements with vertical glazing bars only. Wall from this block running south, and returning into Hyde Lane. Ashlar, Ramped to rusticated gatepiers. Iron gates with arrowhead finials.
Listing NGR: SU1846269592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 446158
- 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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