United Hospitals

United Hospitals, London Road, Gloucester

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245724
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:: United Hospitals
Statutory Address:: United Hospitals, London Road, Gloucester

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245724
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: United Hospitals
Statutory Address 1:: United Hospitals, London Road, Gloucester

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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Location

Statutory Address:: United Hospitals, London Road, Gloucester

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Gloucester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 84171 18914

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 22 May 2023 to amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards

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GLOUCESTER LONDON ROAD (south side) United Hospitals

(Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (South side) United Almshouse)

04/08/71 II Almshouses. 1860-1. By Fulljames and Waller for the Gloucester Municipal Charity Trustees to house the United Hospitals formed after the amalgamation of the St Margaret and St Mary Magdelen and St Kyneburgh Hospitals in 1861.

MATERIALS: red brick with decorative bands and relieving arches in white and blue bricks, dressed stone frames to doorways and windows, plain tile roofs with stone coped gables and gablets with stone kneelers and finials, tall brick ridge stacks and projecting stacks with single or double flues in several patterns.

STYLE: Picturesque Domestic Gothic.

PLAN: long, irregular ranges on three sides of a large rectangular court, a former range on the south side of the court at rear demolished. In approximately the centre of the north side the dominating feature is a large, square tower, with a stair turret projecting from its southern side, and flanked by a cross-gabled range on its western side.

EXTERIOR: one and two storeys with gable-end roofs, and tower of three storeys crowned by a steeply pitched, pyramidal roof with a lucarne on each face. The entrance front facing London Road has a continuous offset plinth with a chamfered stone coping; on the front of the tower and the gable-end wall of the cross range to right at first-floor level, a decorative brick band framing diaper panels below the windows; below the eaves of the tower roof a decorative brick frieze; on the front of the tower a central, two storey, canted bay window with lean-to roof; on each floor of the bay timber-framed casements of three front lights and single sidelights with a trefoiled head to each light; on the third floor on each face of the tower a central, double casement; in the gable-end wall of the cross-gabled range adjoining the tower to right and on both floors are stone-framed, pointed-arched windows with a circular light in the head under a relieving arch of brick voussoirs in alternating blocks of blue and white bricks. To west of the tower is a single-storey range with two two-light windows having details similar to windows in the end of the central cross range with their heads within coped gablets; further left a two-storey tower, its pyramidal roof with a lucarne on each face, on the ground floor a stone-framed doorway with moulded arch in a gablet with finial, and on the first floor a single light window; further left a two storey cross-gabled wall at the north end of the east range, with projecting stack to left and to right, on each floor, a two-light window. To right of the central tower and cross range a single-storey range with a central stone-framed doorway set in a projection with the arch of the doorway raised within a cross gablet, at each end of the range a two-light window with trefoil heads to each light, and brick relieving arches with contrasting bricks set in cross gablets. North gable-end of the west range, to right, has on the ground floor a three-light stone-framed window with Caernarvon arches in the head of each light, and on the second floor a three-light window with trefoil arches in the heads of the lights, and brick relieving arch as described.

The long west range of two storeys, with on the west face a short cross-gabled wing at each end; between the wings are three tall, irregularly spaced chimney-stacks, on the ground floor many two or three-light stone-framed windows and on the first floor similar windows, the taller, two-light windows adjoining stacks, with brick relieving arches set within cross gablets. The east range, also of two storeys, has features and details similar to the west range. Within the courtyard on each side are single-storey verandas, and on the first floors of the east and west ranges are regularly spaced two-light windows, with trefoil-arched lights raised in cross gablets alternating with short two-light windows with flat heads.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

HISTORY: the building was built on the site of the former Leprosy Hospital of St Margaret and St Sepulchure founded prior to 1163.

Listing NGR: SO8417118914

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Legacy System number:: 472320
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.