St Nicholas Hospital South Block
ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL SOUTH BLOCK, QUEENS ROAD
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Overview
- 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
- Reference:
- IOE01/07055/34
- Rights:
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- 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
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 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
Legacy
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.
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