NURSES HOME AT WANSTEAD HOSPITAL

NURSES HOME AT WANSTEAD HOSPITAL, HERMON HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263119
Date first listed:: 06-Dec-1990
List Entry Name:: NURSES HOME AT WANSTEAD HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: NURSES HOME AT WANSTEAD HOSPITAL, HERMON HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263119
Date first listed:: 06-Dec-1990
List Entry Name:: NURSES HOME AT WANSTEAD HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: NURSES HOME AT WANSTEAD HOSPITAL, HERMON HILL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: NURSES HOME AT WANSTEAD HOSPITAL, HERMON HILL

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Redbridge (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ4054089291

Details

The following building shall be added:-

TQ 48 NW 5/30

HERMON HILL (East Side off) NURSES HOME AT WANSTEAD HOSPITAL

II GV

Infirmary of the Merchant seaman's Orphan Asylum. 1900-01, by Arnold Mitchell, with later alterations. Red brick in English bond with blue brick bands and ashlar dressings. Graduated lakeland slate roof, with Welsh slate to addition. Half-butterfly plan of 2 storeys ; 14 bays, 4 : 6 : 4, the 6 central bays in 2 shallow canted projections. At right end added, gabled, cross-wing. Windows are tall 18-pane sashes with 6-pane overlights and wooden sills; on ground floor they are below 4- centred arches with "voussoirs" of alternate red and blue brick and brick tympanums ; on 1st floor they have stone lintels and rise through eaves under stepped gables which have moulded stone coping. At centre the 1st floor windows are below parapet with wavy stone coping and stone quasi-rainwater spouts. Stepped end gables with moulded stone coping. Three decorative vents to ridge, that at centre larger and more elaborate : outer vents are polygonal, of one stage, with flat circular roofs; central vent is octagonal of 2 stages, the upper stage with arched braces; all have slate- hung bases, baluster-like columns supporting roofs/upper stage, and tall finials. Stacks at either end and to ridge flanking centre. Cross-wing on right has door in left return under gabled 1st- floor window; the gable end has iron steps upto 1st floor door with side- lights and arched niche to apex. Rear: in same style, the 3 central bays forming canted projection and having 15-pane sashes to lst floor and flanked by short angled wings, that on left fronted by later addition (not of special interest). Single-storey addition in angle with cross- wing not of special interest. Arnold Mitchell was surveyor to the Orphanage from 1898 to 1913.

Listing NGR: TQ4054089291

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Legacy System number:: 204898
Legacy System:: LBS

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