Front and Main Rear Range of St Andrews Hospital and Attached Walls
FRONT AND MAIN REAR RANGE OF ST ANDREWS HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED WALLS, ROWDEN HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267929
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Front and Main Rear Range of St Andrews Hospital and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- FRONT AND MAIN REAR RANGE OF ST ANDREWS HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED WALLS, ROWDEN HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267929
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Front and Main Rear Range of St Andrews Hospital and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRONT AND MAIN REAR RANGE OF ST ANDREWS HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED WALLS, ROWDEN HILL
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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:
- FRONT AND MAIN REAR RANGE OF ST ANDREWS HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED WALLS, ROWDEN HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chippenham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 91291 72642
Details
ST9172
930-1/11/176
22/06/78
CHIPPENHAM
ROWDEN HILL(East side)Front and main rear range of St Andrew's Hospital and attached walls(Formerly Listed as:ROWDEN HILL(East side)Front and main rear range of St Andrew's Hospital)
GII
Workhouse, now part of hospital buildings. c1857-9,with many later additions. Square limestone rubble with freestone quoins,plinths and dressings,hipped slate roofs.Tudor Revival style.PLAN: originally of two parallel ranges connected by a bar,now considerably infilled,it had two-light stone-mullioned cast-iron casement windows with hexagonal panes.Some remain.The front range flanking the gatehouse is single storey terminated by Dutch gabled ranges.The gatehouse is two-unit plan.EXTERIOR:two storeys;three-bay range.The central bay is stepped forward under a Dutch gable with an oculus to the apex;C20 windows flank a semicircular-arched carriage entrance.The rear retains the cast-iron windows.The courtyard to the rear is enclosed by attached high walls with chamfered freestone doorways to the gable ends of outhouses.The three-window range central block of the rear range is splayed to the first floor forming an octagon with a large lantern of two semicircular-arched lights with keystones and imposts to each facet which support a cornice and Dutch gabled parapets to four sides.The double entrance doors with sidelights and overlight are under a hoodmould with block stops.INTERIOR:is altered.HISTORY:built as a workhouse,the building became a hospital in 1947.(The Buildings of England:Pevsner N & Cherry B:Wiltshire:London:1967-1975:169).
Listing NGR: ST9129172642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462405
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 169
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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