Entrance Block and Casual Wards at Wharfedale General Hospital

ENTRANCE BLOCK AND CASUAL WARDS AT WHARFEDALE GENERAL HOSPITAL, NEWALL CARR ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268416
Date first listed:
15-Nov-2000
List Entry Name:
Entrance Block and Casual Wards at Wharfedale General Hospital
Statutory Address:
ENTRANCE BLOCK AND CASUAL WARDS AT WHARFEDALE GENERAL HOSPITAL, NEWALL CARR ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268416
Date first listed:
15-Nov-2000
List Entry Name:
Entrance Block and Casual Wards at Wharfedale General Hospital
Statutory Address 1:
ENTRANCE BLOCK AND CASUAL WARDS AT WHARFEDALE GENERAL HOSPITAL, NEWALL CARR ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ENTRANCE BLOCK AND CASUAL WARDS 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:
SE1996446556

Details

SE 14 NE; 805/7/10010
15-NOV-00

OTLEY, NEWALL CARR ROAD (west, off),
Entrance Block and Casual Wards at Wharfedale General Hospital

II

Entrance block and casual wards at former Wharfedale Union Workhouse. 1871-73, by the local architects C S and A J Nelson for the Wharfedale Poor Law Union. Mid and late C20 alterations and additions. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with coped gables and prominent coped side wall and gable stacks. Gothic Revival style. Plinth and dentillated eaves. Single storey; nine unequal bays.
In the centre, a pointed arched carriage entrance with hood mould, under a coped gable and finial. To left, two renewed windows with linked hood moulds, and to right, an original plain sash with hood mould. To left, a higher block with facing gable, containing three pointed arched windows with hoodmoulds, and above them, a round opening. Beyond, a lower block with three renewed windows under a hipped roof. To right, a minor gable with two pointed arched windows with linked hood moulds, flanked by single plain sashes. To right again, a higher block with facing gable, containing three reglazed pointed arched windows, and above them a round opening. To right again, a lower workshop with two small barred windows under a hipped roof. Rear elevation largely masked by later C20 single-storey flat-roofed additions. At the south end, two smaller lean-to additions.
INTERIOR: plain offices, that north of the carriage entrance with beaded 4-panel door. Workshop to north has strutted king-post roof.

Listing NGR: SE1996446556

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Legacy System number:
486874
Legacy System:
LBS

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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