OLD SAFFRON WALDEN HOSPITAL

OLD SAFFRON WALDEN HOSPITAL, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280236
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: OLD SAFFRON WALDEN HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: OLD SAFFRON WALDEN HOSPITAL, LONDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280236
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: OLD SAFFRON WALDEN HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: OLD SAFFRON WALDEN HOSPITAL, LONDON 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:: OLD SAFFRON WALDEN HOSPITAL, LONDON ROAD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Saffron Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL 53587 37984

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NW LONDON ROAD 669-1/3/268 (North West side) 02/04/87 Old Saffron Walden Hospital (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD London Road Hospital)

II

Hospital, now council offices. Dated 1865. William Beck. Red brick, white brick and stone dressings, slate roof with two 3-course fishscale bands and cresting. High Victorian Gothic. 2 storeys with attics. Shallow H plan; central entrance bay breaking forward slightly; gabled cross-wings, lower gabled wings projecting at each end. Single-storey later C19 range attached to NE. Front elevation has paired Caernarvon arched windows to ground floor with column mullions, similar single windows flanking entrance bay. Open stone porch with granite piers and steeply-pitched stone roof flanked by sashes under pointed stone heads. Stone first floor sillband; decorative red and white brick first floor band, similar cornice band. White brick quoins. Central bay has: pavilion roof with decorative iron balustrade, large gabled wall dormer with stack at apex and 3-light pointed window with plate tracery under decorative brick arch. Plaque at eaves level incribed `S WALDEN HOSPITAL', paired round headed sashes to first floor under pointed stone arches, with column mullion, flanked by brick and stone cartouches inscribed `18 65'. Half hipped corners with paired 2-light sashes under pointed heaads. Cross-wings have pointed 3-light first floor windows with plate tracery and decorative brick arches. Other first floor windows with round-headed sashes under stone arches. End wings and rear have similar traceried first floor windows, other windows are sashes with stone lintels. Rear elevation mostly obscured by later C19 additions. INTERIOR: entrance hall has 3-bay limestone arcade with carved capitals, 2-centred stone arch over entrance with carved imposts; stair with pierced balusters, open timber roof; carved stone corbels throughout.

Listing NGR: TL5358737984

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Legacy System number:: 370652
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.