Irthlingborough Casual Wards
IRTHLINGBOROUGH CASUAL WARDS, A6
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271218
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Irthlingborough Casual Wards
- Statutory Address:
- IRTHLINGBOROUGH CASUAL WARDS, A6
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271218
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Irthlingborough Casual Wards
- Statutory Address 1:
- IRTHLINGBOROUGH CASUAL WARDS, A6
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:
- IRTHLINGBOROUGH CASUAL WARDS, A6
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Irthlingborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SP9526971060
Details
IRTHLINGBOROUGH
1740/0/10013 A6
09-MAR-01 (Northeast side)
Irthlingborough Casual Wards
II
Former set of casual wards. 1933. By GH Lewin, Northants. County Surveyor, for Northants. County Council Public Assistance Committee. Red brick with blue brick plinth and steps and artificial stone dressings. Slate roof with blue ridge tiles. Central ridge stack on front block. Vernacular style with small-pane metal casements. Front administrative block with day room behind and dormitory block further to rear, all linked by an axial corridor. 2 storeys. 15-window range in all at first floor of various size windows under brick cambered lintels, a few with key blocks. Large facing projecting gable to either end and smaller one to centre. Similar windows to ground floor and door to centre right. Projecting single-storey wing to left. To rear the single-storey day room with a row of casements, and further to rear the higher dormitory block designed with full-length outshuts to front and rear and a clerestory above lit along the whole length by long casements. Detached single-storey workshop range in similar style, now in use as garage. INTERIOR. The original layout is legible. Room divisions and doors generally survive but few of the fittings. Front administrative block had waiting room, accommodation for women tramps on two floors, duty room, and rooms for live-in staff, etc. Day room is behind. The ward block has 8 20-bed dormitories.
This set of casual wards is probably unique as a little altered survival of a detached casual ward erected (following the abolition of the poor law in 1929) as a response to the Depression and the resultant rise in labourers searching for work as well as for vagrants and tramps.
Listing NGR: SP9526971060
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486966
- 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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