Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
EYE, EAR AND THROAT HOSPITAL, MOUNT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270689
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- EYE, EAR AND THROAT HOSPITAL, MOUNT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270689
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- EYE, EAR AND THROAT HOSPITAL, MOUNT STREET
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:
- EYE, EAR AND THROAT HOSPITAL, MOUNT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shrewsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 48896 12278
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4812SE MURIVANCE 653-1/14/455 (South West side) Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
GV II
Hospital. 1879-1881, by Ellison of Liverpool. Extended 1926. Brick and terracotta; roofs of Welsh slate with terracotta cresting. 3 storeys, 8-window range to Murivance, an asymmetrical composition. Doorway to right in extension of 1926, a wide moulded archway in projecting bay with paired sash windows alongside with moulded architraves and continuous hoodmould over. 3 paired sash windows above. Terracotta panels above, and mullioned and transomed windows with pointed upper lights over. Square mullioned and transomed windows in attic storey, with steep pediment over central bay. Central section a 4-window range with an oriel window on first and second floors: the second floor oriel carried on a stumpy shaft. Recessed slightly to left of this section a tower, with paired windows to ground floor with terracotta low relief panels over, paired shouldered mullioned and transomed windows above and square-headed windows over with shields and terracotta panels beneath high relieving arch. Terracotta panelled band and corbelling to flat roof. Recessed left-hand bay with paired windows on each floor. Elevation to Kingsland Bridge of 7 bays, loosely symmetrical. Central and outer bays advanced. Entrance in central bay, up steps with terracotta balustrading. Wide moulded archway with projecting 6-light mullioned and transomed window over incorporating stained-glass figures, and ornate foliate panels. Over the window, a curved timber cornice carried on raking struts. Paired foiled lights and cinquefoils in wide relieving arch beneath decorative panelling in gable apex. Outer sections of this elevation each of 2 bays, similarly composed. Lower bays have basement storey with continuous hoodmould then mullioned and transomed windows above, continuing across chamfered outer corner on ground floor. Angles corbelled out above this chamfer, with decorative terracotta panelling above, and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows over. 2-light dormer window in projecting hipped roof. Each projecting block has central flying buttress forming stack. Recessed inner bays have lower doorways with mullioned and transomed windows over, and gabled dormers with overhanging eaves cornice carried on brackets. A highly distinguished composition, skilfully articulated in a predominantly High Victorian manner. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire: Harmondsworth: 1958-).
Listing NGR: SJ4889612278
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457698
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958)
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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