Tower Hospital
TOWER HOSPITAL, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252456
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER HOSPITAL, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252456
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER HOSPITAL, CAMBRIDGE 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:
- TOWER HOSPITAL, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ely
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 53309 79914
Details
The following building shall be added:-
ELY CAMBRIDGE ROAD TL 57 NW 4/1000 TOWER HOSPITAL
- II
Workhouse, now a disused hospital. 1837-8 by WJ Donthom. Gault brick in Flemish bond with limestone dressings. Roofs with parapeted gable ends recently re-clad in artificial slates; W. wing and cross-wing clad in asbestos sheets. Brick gable end and lateral stacks. PLAN: E-shaped with large tower over central entrance wing and central rear wing behind. Tudor style. EXTERIOR: Low 2-storey ranges linking 3-storey wings. 1:5:3:5:1 bay east front. Gabled projecting wings to left and right of 3 storeys. Large central tower with embattled octagonal turrets at the comers with tall narrow windows, at the front a very large full height mullion transom window taking up the whole area between the turrets with a doorway at the base and a gable at the top with a clock and a bellcote, and between the turrets on the S side large mullion transom windows. Side elevations of N and S wings have central projecting gabled bays. Chamfered stone mullion transom windows. Central block behind tower has splayed gabled comers with 4-centred arch doorways and long rear (W) wing with cross-wing at the end, the ranges behind (W) have been altered or demolished. INTERIOR: Stone dog-leg staircase in central block with simple wooden balustrade with square newels and stick balusters. It accommodated 340 inmates. SOURCES: Victoria County History p.46. Colvin H, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 p.271. Buildings of England p.381.
Listing NGR: TL5330979914
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435474
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1989), 46
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 271
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 381
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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