Sandhill Park Hospital
SANDHILL PARK HOSPITAL, SANDHILL PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295317
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sandhill Park Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- SANDHILL PARK HOSPITAL, SANDHILL PARK
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295317
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sandhill Park Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- SANDHILL PARK HOSPITAL, SANDHILL PARK
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:
- SANDHILL PARK HOSPITAL, SANDHILL PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Lydeard
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 15624 29861
Details
ST12NE BISHOP'S LYDEARD CP
SANDHILL PARK 7/57 Sandhill Park Hospital
- - II*
Country house, now hospital. Circa 1720, portico and wings added circa 1815, altered late C19. Red sandstone ashlar front with Ham stone dressings, Ham stone returns and flanking wings, quoin strips also distinguishing central pedimented bay, hipped slate roof behind parapets brick stacks. Plan: 7 bay double pile block flanked by set back, 3 bay wings. 3 storeys, 2:3:2 bays, centre breaks forward, second floor 12 pane sash windows in lugged surrounds below moulded cornice, first floor 12 pane sash windows with shouldered surrounds below the string course carried on console blocks continued in pediment, central window with masque in keystone. Arched entrance centre, C19, double glazed doors, set in paired column surround with coat of arms in spandrels approached by flight of 3 stepes and 3 bay colonnade of paired Tuscan columns with paterae and triglyph frieze carrying shallow pediment with armorial bearings in the typanum. Wooden boarded soffit, patterned pebble pavement in forecourt. 5 bay returns left and right latter with 3 bay canted window carrying similar frieze to colonnade. Set back flanking 3 bay wings, sash windows in similar surrounds below parapet. Interior: hall contains rococo plasterwork of circa 1750, front room left and room on right return late C19 plaster decoration. (Photographs in NMR).
Listing NGR: ST1562429861
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270268
- 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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