Blocks 1 and 2 and linking arcade to Hanham Hall Hospital

Blocks 1 and 2 and linking arcade to Hanham Hall Hospital, Whittucks Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1278348
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1981
List Entry Name:: Blocks 1 and 2 and linking arcade to Hanham Hall Hospital
Statutory Address:: Blocks 1 and 2 and linking arcade to Hanham Hall Hospital, Whittucks Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1278348
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1981
List Entry Name:: Blocks 1 and 2 and linking arcade to Hanham Hall Hospital
Statutory Address 1:: Blocks 1 and 2 and linking arcade to Hanham Hall Hospital, Whittucks 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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Location

Statutory Address:: Blocks 1 and 2 and linking arcade to Hanham Hall Hospital, Whittucks Road

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hanham Abbots
National Grid Reference:: ST 64440 71634

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/06/2020

ST 67 SW 3/76

HANHAM ABBOTS WHITTUCKS ROAD Blocks 1 and 2 and linking arcade to Hanham Hall Hospital

II* (Former NHS psychiatric hospital).

Built 1655 for Richard Jones with alterations. Large rambling house with "A" plan and long wing to north.

Principal elevation faces south and has recessed centre with moulded stone parapet cornice, projecting gabled end units with moulded copings. Windows 2+5+2, sashes with exposed frames in shallow reveals. Two storeys plus six gabled casement dormers to centre and one three-light lunette in each gable face. Rendered walling, slate roofs. Chimneys reduced, one stepped base to right of right hand gable with two diagonal brick shafts. Small central clock turret with wooden arcaded lantern and cupola. Central solid stone porch with semi-circular stone shell hood, coved niche with shell head in each inside wall of porch, later C19 double doors (glazed) horse-shoe-shaped threshold. Two bay extension to right with three-light stepped windows with dripmould and transom, centre light round headed suggestive of a Venetian window, gable over right hand window. Gabled projections have square section lead rainwater pipes with relief heads on clamps and on hopper.

Rear elevation has three small gables to each end unit, right hand end gable hipped. Parapet cornice to centre which is an early C18 blocking of former recessed centre with three irregular set-back gables. 3+5+3 windows, later wooden casements, three left hand attic gables retain moulded single-light windows, original window to attics. Central bolection architrave door opening, panelled door, arched hollow stone hood on folded scroll-brackets. Projecting (modern) single storey, extension to left and right of doorway. Central lead rainwater head with relief scroll-work.

Late C17 attached two storey wing set at angle to rear, slate roof. Three windows, three- and four-light casements with moulded stone mullions, later lunette lights over ground floor windows (filling space below relieving arches). Tudor-arch doorway with double studded doors, arched hollow stone hood on folded scroll brackets. Taller late Victorian two and a half storey extension to right forms link to apex of plan, four windows and three tall gabled half dormers.The cross-stroke of the plan is a covered corridor, a four bay Tudor arched arcade with parapet and central urn.

'L'-plan extension to north very much altered but staircase at north end retains a barrel-stop moulded beam and carved string, one gable to north-east with coped verge.

Interior: circa 1710-20s staircase entered from north of hall, divides at landing, heavy moulded hand-rail, 3 twisted balusters per tread and splayed bottom, panelled dado with ramped rail. Ground floor room to west of hall is panelled with carved scroll cornice dated R 1A over 1655 (Richard Jones or Johnson). The hall and rooms above retain a large amount of early C18 panelling. Dining Hall to right not of special interest.

Listing NGR: ST6444071634

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Legacy System number:: 28705
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.