Former Kidderminster General Hospital including revetment and front area railings to south west

Bradley Thursfield Court, Kidderminster, DY11 6XF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1249450
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1992
List Entry Name:
Former Kidderminster General Hospital including revetment and front area railings to south west
Statutory Address:
Bradley Thursfield Court, Kidderminster, DY11 6XF
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1249450
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1992
List Entry Name:
Former Kidderminster General Hospital including revetment and front area railings to south west
Statutory Address 1:
Bradley Thursfield Court, Kidderminster, DY11 6XF

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Bradley Thursfield Court, Kidderminster, DY11 6XF

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

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Wyre Forest (District Authority)
Parish:
Kidderminster
National Grid Reference:
SO 82492 76986

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/05/2018

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KIDDERMINSTER
Bradley Thursfield Court
Former Kidderminster General Hospital including revetment and front area railings to south west

(Formerly listed as Kidderminster General Hospital including revetment and front area railings to south west, MILL STREET)

II
Former hospital, converted to apartments by 1999. Built 1870-1871 by J G Bland; extended in 1886, 1888, 1902 and 1926. Red brick with blue brick and limestone dressings. Steeply pitched plain tile roof, hipped at centre and gabled at ends. Large brick axial and lateral stacks with set offs. High Victorian Gothic style.

PLAN: Small example of pavilion plan with central administration block with entrance and stairs and axially-flanking wards. 1926 extension on south east not of special interest.

EXTERIOR: Three and two storeys. Symmetrical 2:4:3:3:3:4:5 bays. The central three storey three-bay administration block has hipped roof with finials and cresting, flanking large stacks and projecting gabled centre bay with gabled porch, canted stone bay cinquefoil in tympanum of pointed arch in gable; to left and right two-light windows and three-light pointed arch ground floor windows with stone colonnettes. Flanking hipped roof pavilions, four bays with central lateral stacks and small gabled projecting wings at either end. Limestone coping with corbelled kneelers to gables, limestone and blue with bands and corbelled brick eaves. Wooden louvred ventilators over end bays with pyramidal roofs. Gabled end elevations and gabled and hipped wings at rear and at centre gabled stair wing with three lancets and quatrefoil above.

Hospital stands high above Mill Street and has tall brick revetment with depressed two-centre arch blind arcade, railings and piers above and pointed archway to dispensary on right.

INTERIOR: Open well drain stairs with cast-iron balustrade, gothic newel panelled vaulted ceiling and lancet windows with stained glass of 1888 in memory of Lady Kingsale; two small stained glass windows at back of hall.

Listing NGR: SO8249276986

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431581
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Sources

Books and journals
Burton, J R, A History of Kidderminster, ()
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1872)
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1928)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Former Kidderminster General Hospital including revetment and front area railings to south west

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