Danetre Hospital Administration Offices (Former Workhouse Building)
DANETRE HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION OFFICES (FORMER WORKHOUSE BUILDING), LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249207
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Danetre Hospital Administration Offices (Former Workhouse Building)
- Statutory Address:
- DANETRE HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION OFFICES (FORMER WORKHOUSE BUILDING), LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249207
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Danetre Hospital Administration Offices (Former Workhouse Building)
- Statutory Address 1:
- DANETRE HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION OFFICES (FORMER WORKHOUSE BUILDING), LONDON 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:
- DANETRE HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION OFFICES (FORMER WORKHOUSE BUILDING), LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Daventry
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 57415 61920
Details
The following building shall be included:
DAVENTRY LONDON ROAD SP 56 SE Danetre Hospital 1/91 Administration Offices (former workhouse building) II Workhouse, converted into hospital, now hospital administration offices. 1838 Poor Law Institution, Flemish bond red brick. Hipped slate roof with moulded eaves. Slate hipped roofs. Brick axial stacks. H-shaped on plan with central entrance on the outer side of the east wing of the H. Georgian style. 2 storeys. 10:3:3:3:7 window range, centre 9 bays advanced of which the 3 at centre with pediment break forward again. All 12-pane sashes with horns and stone sills, the ground floor with flat brick arches, the first floor window heads under eaves entablature. Central doorway with small canopy on brackets, rectangular overlight and flush panel door. The central lateral and back ranges also have sash windows; on the west (rear) elevation of the back range the 2 end bays break forward with pedimental gables. Minor C20 brick additions on back of ranges. Interior: not inspected. Note: Built in 1838 as a Poor Law Institution accommodating 230 inmates, it became a hospital, whose C20 main buildings are detached to the west. The Workhouse building is now used as hospital administration offices. Source: Buildings of England p.173; Kellys Director# Northamptonshire 1898, p.62.
Listing NGR: SP5741561920
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359989
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 173
Kelly's Directory in Bedfordshire Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire, (1898), 62
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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