St Nicholas Hospital Main Entrance Range
ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL MAIN ENTRANCE RANGE, QUEENS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245984
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas Hospital Main Entrance Range
- Statutory Address:
- ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL MAIN ENTRANCE RANGE, QUEENS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245984
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas Hospital Main Entrance Range
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL MAIN ENTRANCE RANGE, QUEENS 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 NICHOLAS HOSPITAL MAIN ENTRANCE RANGE, QUEENS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG5283506464
Details
GREAT YARMOUTH
TG5206 QUEEN'S ROAD
839-1/6/147 (South side)
05/08/74 St Nicholas' Hospital, Main entrance
range
(Formerly Listed as:
QUEEN'S ROAD
Royal Naval Asylum)
GV II*
Guard rooms, archway and service rooms to the naval hospital,
now general storage and kitchens to St Nicholas' Hospital
(qv). 1809-11. By William Pilkington supervised by Edward
Holl, Architect to the Navy Board. Yellow stock brick with
Portland stone dressings. Slate roofs.
PLAN: central archway with flanking screen walls and
single-depth ranges.
Central 2-storey block with a Roman portico of 2 pairs of
giant Tuscan pilasters framing a round entrance arch. Four 6/6
sashes to the ground floor and four 3/3 sashes to the first
floor, all recessed behind wall plane. Parapet swept down
right and left to single-storey wings with sashes and C20
casements. Gabled roofs of low pitch.
HISTORICAL NOTE: formed the main approach to the hospital with
kitchens in side ranges. The hospital is a unique instance of
military planning, the entrance range may have served to
screen the officers' houses, formerly to the N, from the main
part of the hospital. Part of a fine group of early naval
hospital buildings.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North-east Norfolk and
Norwich: London: 1973-: 148; SAVE Britain's Heritage: Deserted
Bastions: London: 1993-: 124).
Listing NGR: TG5283506464
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468593
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North East Norfolk and Norwich, (1962), 148
SAVE Britains Heritage, , Deserted Bastions, (1993), 124
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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