Hospital of St John
HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284088
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Hospital of St John
- Statutory Address:
- HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284088
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Hospital of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN, HIGH 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:
- HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Heytesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 92752 42622
Details
HEYTESBURY HIGH STREET ST 92 SW (north side) 9/54 Hospital of St. John 19.9.68
GV II
Almshouses. Rebuilt 1769. Flemish bond brick with stone dressings, tiled hipped roof, brick stack. 'U'-plan around three sides of courtyard. Two storey, 5-windowed; sashes. Centre bay breaks forward with chamfered rusticated quoins and pediment with arms of Hungerford family; door with 6 fielded panels in moulded stone architrave, two 12-pane sashes in beaded architraves either side. Plat band to first floor; five 9-pane sashes in moulded architraves, moulded stone eaves cornice. Octagonal wooden cupola over pediment has gilded clockface and arched openings, lead domed roof. Wings facing courtyard each have door with 6 fielded panels in moulded architrave with flat stone hood on brackets, two sashes and one blind sash, plat band and three 9-pane sashes and one blind to first floor, same eaves cornice, chamfered rusticated quoins. Front gables have 12-pane sash to ground and 9-pane sash to first floor. Left return of west wing has tripartite sashes to ground floor and 6-pane sashes to first. Right return of east wing has central half-glazed door in stone architrave with C20 hood, three sashes either side, first floor has plat band and 7 sashes, three C20 hipped dormers to roof. Rear has sashes as to front and C20 flat-roofed extension. Interior altered C20. Endowed by Margaret, Lady Hungerford c1472, rebuilt following fire of c1765.
Listing NGR: ST9275242622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313275
- 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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