Tower at Seacroft Hospital
TOWER AT SEACROFT HOSPITAL, YORK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255580
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Tower at Seacroft Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER AT SEACROFT HOSPITAL, YORK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255580
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Tower at Seacroft Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER AT SEACROFT HOSPITAL, YORK 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 AT SEACROFT HOSPITAL, YORK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE3501034612
Details
SE33SE
714-1/12/1082
05/08/76
LEEDS
YORK ROAD, Seacroft
(South side)
Tower at Seacroft Hospital
II
Water tower. 1902-4. By ET Hall. Arts and Crafts influence.
Tall red brick tower, square on plan and tapered. Wide
cornice, parapet ramped up at corners. Moulded cornice below,
segmentally-arched over clock face on each side with
terracotta surrounds. Below is continuous iron-railed balcony
on all sides with low but wide segmentally-arched window
beneath. The bottom half of the tower has plain walls with
only a few small windows.
INTERIOR: cast-iron spiral stair in left corner, water tanks
removed. The water tanks help up to 40,000 gallons for this
(seacroft) and Killinbeck hospitals.
HISTORY: Seacroft hospital was originally built in the grounds
of the former Manston Hall, as a temporary smallpox hospital
in 1893; it was extended for scarlet fever in 1898 by Thomas
Hewson, City Engineer. 1902-04 permanent hospital for scarlet
fever; diptheria and eutric fever built.
(RCHME: Report: Seacroft Hospital: 1995-).
Listing NGR: SE3501034612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465847
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Seacroft Hospital, (1995)
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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