Moorlands Hospital
MOORLANDS HOSPITAL, ASHBOURNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268665
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Moorlands Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- MOORLANDS HOSPITAL, ASHBOURNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268665
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Moorlands Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOORLANDS HOSPITAL, ASHBOURNE 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:
- MOORLANDS HOSPITAL, ASHBOURNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leek
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 99429 56155
Details
LEEK
SJ95NE ASHBOURNE ROAD 611-1/1/15 (East side) 07/06/72 Moorlands Hospital (Formerly Listed as: ASHBOURNE ROAD Moorlands Hospital (Former Workhouse))
GV II
Workhouse, now hospital. 1838. By Bateman and Drury. Red brick with slate roof. EXTERIOR: main block facing street a 3-storeyed, 10- window range (2-1-3-1-2). Rear ranges arranged on panopticon principal, with 3-storeyed axial wing to rear of frontage linked to octagonal storeyed block from which 3 further cruciform wings formerly ran. Pediment over 3 central bays with date in apex. Central entrance in porch with coupled Doric columns. Windows (renewed in original openings to first floor) with flat-arched stone heads with moulded keystones. Moulded stone cornice and blocking course. Single storey 3-window pavilions with central pediment each side of main range. Central rear wing 3-storeyed, 6-window range (originally sash windows of 9 and 12 lights, some now renewed), linking to octagonal tower. One radial wing parallel to frontage block survives (the other demolished c1990): 2-storeyed, 8-window range, 12-pane sashes with stone cills and flat-arched brick heads. Lower rear wing beyond tower now (and perhaps originally) the kitchens. INTERIOR: layout still retains some of the original plan, and the stone staircases with cast-iron rails survive in frontage block and rear wings.
Listing NGR: SJ9942956155
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461589
- 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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