Donnington Hospital
DONNINGTON HOSPITAL, OXFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290987
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Donnington Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- DONNINGTON HOSPITAL, OXFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290987
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Donnington Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- DONNINGTON HOSPITAL, OXFORD ROAD
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:
- DONNINGTON HOSPITAL, OXFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shaw cum Donnington
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 46564 68593
Details
SU 46NE SHAW CUM DONNINGTON OXFORD ROAD (west side) 7/52 Donnington Hospital 6.6.52 GV II*
Almshouses. 1602, restored 1822. Brick with tiled roofs and 6 stacks with 4 and 2 shafts, oversailing tops and rectangular bases. Central courtyard. 1 storey and attic. C20 casements with leaded lights. Central porch with coat of arms under returned hood mould in stone coped gable. Segmental headed entrance with brick band under eaves returned down each side; deep moulded eaves cornice carried across foot of gable. 4 windows to left and 3 to right; all with shutters. Stacks to left and right with twin shafts; 2 C20 dormers to left and one to right. Moulded eaves cornice, carried across feet of gables to far left and right with casements above. North and south fronts with 2 stacks and C20 dormers. Courtyard with eaves supported on iron columns. V.C.H.Vol.4. p.88. B.O.E.Berkshire p.l28. Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide, Betjeman and Piper.1949. P.141
Listing NGR: SU4656468593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394180
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 128
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 88
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 141
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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