ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL SOUTH BLOCK

ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL SOUTH BLOCK, QUEENS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245985
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL SOUTH BLOCK
Statutory Address:: ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL SOUTH BLOCK, QUEENS ROAD

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Date:: 2002-07-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245985
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:: ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL SOUTH BLOCK
Statutory Address 1:: ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL SOUTH BLOCK, QUEENS 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL SOUTH BLOCK, 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:: TG5284706289

Details

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5206 QUEEN'S ROAD 839-1/6/148 (South side) 05/08/74 St Nicholas' Hospital, South Block (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN'S ROAD Royal Naval Asylum)

GV II

Isolation wing to naval hospital, now St Nicholas' Hospital (qv). c1809-11. By William Pilkington, supervised by Edward Holl, Architect to the Navy Board. Yellow stock brick under slate roofs. One storey. 5 bays right and left of projecting 3-bay centrepiece with 2-bay wings projecting at east and west ends under hipped roofs. 6/6 horned sashes under reduced gauged skewback arches, 4 of which are blocked. Eaves cornice of paired upright bricks imitating a triglyph frieze. INTERIOR: plain, of C20 character. HISTORICAL NOTE: possibly the isolation ward for what were known as zymotic deseases. As such an early and rare example of its type, part of a good group with the main hospital range, and the former mortuary (qv), of architectural interest for its use of decorative brickwork. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North-east Norfolk and Norwich: London: 1973-: 148; SAVE Britain's Heritage: Deserted Bastions: London: 1993-: 124).

Listing NGR: TG5284706289

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 468594
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.