Summerlands Hospital (Main Block Only)
SUMMERLANDS HOSPITAL (MAIN BLOCK ONLY), PRESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296185
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Summerlands Hospital (Main Block Only)
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMERLANDS HOSPITAL (MAIN BLOCK ONLY), PRESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296185
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Summerlands Hospital (Main Block Only)
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMERLANDS HOSPITAL (MAIN BLOCK ONLY), PRESTON 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:
- SUMMERLANDS HOSPITAL (MAIN BLOCK ONLY), PRESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yeovil
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 54591 16486
Details
ST51NW YEOVIL CP PRESTON ROAD (North side)
1/73 Summerlands hospital (front block only)
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- II
Workhouse administration block, dated 1837. Local Stonework cut and squared with plain Ham stone quoins and window dressings; Welsh slated hipped roof with 2-brick chimney stacks set asymmetrically. 2-storey, 11-bay facade of 3:1:3:1:3 pattern, with single offsets to bays 4 and 8 and double offset to bays 5-7. Simple pediment to central projection, bearing dates 1837 and 1968. Sliding sash windows; ground floor windows have 2 upper and 1 lower pane; first floor 3 upper and 2 lower panes. Central ground floor window has slightly proud surround with crude pediment over. 2-matching single storey wings each side: Rear elevation much altered. Interior not seen. Other buildings on site not of interest. The former Yeovil Union Public Assistance Institution, or Poor Law House (the remainder of the Workhouse and its hospital now demolished). (L Brookes 'The Book of Yeovil' Barracuda Books 1978).
Listing NGR: ST5459116486
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261411
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brookes, L, The Book of Yeovil, (1978)
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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