FORMER INFIRMARY BLOCK AND RETAINING WALL AND STEPS AT WHARFEDALE GENERAL HOSPITAL

FORMER INFIRMARY BLOCK AND RETAINING WALL AND STEPS AT WHARFEDALE GENERAL HOSPITAL, NEWALL CARR ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268415
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-2000
List Entry Name:: FORMER INFIRMARY BLOCK AND RETAINING WALL AND STEPS AT WHARFEDALE GENERAL HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: FORMER INFIRMARY BLOCK AND RETAINING WALL AND STEPS AT WHARFEDALE GENERAL HOSPITAL, NEWALL CARR ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268415
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-2000
List Entry Name:: FORMER INFIRMARY BLOCK AND RETAINING WALL AND STEPS AT WHARFEDALE GENERAL HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER INFIRMARY BLOCK AND RETAINING WALL AND STEPS AT WHARFEDALE GENERAL HOSPITAL, NEWALL CARR ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER INFIRMARY BLOCK AND RETAINING WALL AND STEPS AT WHARFEDALE GENERAL HOSPITAL, NEWALL CARR ROAD

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Otley
National Grid Reference:: SE1989046616

Details

SE 14 NE 805/7/10009 15-NOV-00

OTLEY NEWALL CARR ROAD (West,off) Former Infirmary Block and Retaining Wall and Steps at Wharfedale General Hospital

II

Infirmary block at Wharfedale Union Workhouse. 1871-73, by CS and AJ Nelson for Wharfedale Poor Law Union. Later C19 and C20 alterations. Converted to offices late C20. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and hipped Welsh slate roofs with prominent coped ridge stacks. Plinth and dentillated eaves. 2 storeys; 16 window range. Windows are mainly original glazing bar sashes. Symmetrical frontage has in the centre 2 windows flanked by round arched doorways with panelled doors and fanlights, approached by stone steps. Beyond, on each side, 4 single windows, and in each end bay, paired windows. Above, similar fenestration, with 3 narrower windows in the centre. Left end has a single storey hipped projection with a door, overlight and single window. Behind this, an external stone staircase, L-plan, with a renewed balustrade, to a first floor door flanked by a single window. Right end has a similar projection, with a monopitch roof, and a straight staircase to a C20 door. At the rear, sanitary annexes, 2 storeys, that to east extended early C20. INTERIOR: ground floor stairwells have segmental vaults, cornices and brackets. Stone cantilever dogleg staircases with wrought iron stick balusters and octagonal newels. First floor has late C20 partitioning. Original separate rooms in the end bays on each floor. OUTSIDE:low retaining wall across the front of the building, with a pair of coped square piers in the centre.

Listing NGR: SE1989046616

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Legacy System number:: 486873
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.