Sherburn Hospital Gatehouse, office wing, lodge and wall
Sherburn Hospital Gatehouse, office wing, lodge and wall, Sherburn Hospital, A181
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1311049
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Sherburn Hospital Gatehouse, office wing, lodge and wall
- Statutory Address:
- Sherburn Hospital Gatehouse, office wing, lodge and wall, Sherburn Hospital, A181
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1311049
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Sherburn Hospital Gatehouse, office wing, lodge and wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Sherburn Hospital Gatehouse, office wing, lodge and wall, Sherburn Hospital, A181
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:
- Sherburn Hospital Gatehouse, office wing, lodge and wall, Sherburn Hospital, A181
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shincliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ3076841543
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 15 November 2022 to amend the description, remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards
NZ 3041
12/80
SHINCLIFFE
A 181 (east side)
Sherburn Hospital
Sherburn Hospital Gatehouse, office wing, lodge and wall
(formerly listed in Sherburn House C.P.)
10/5/67
GV
II*
Gatehouse, office, lodge and wall. C14 gatehouse, upper floor rebuilt 1896. Possibly C14 buttressed wall. Mid C19 lodge and c.1896 office. Dressed and ashlar sandstone. Office has graduated stone-tiled roof, lodge has Welsh slate roof, gatehouse roof not visible. Stone chimney stacks. Gatehouse with office on left return and lodge on right; L-plan wall on front of lodge. Tudor style office and lodge.
Two storey, square-plan, angle-buttressed gatehouse. Pointed double-chamfered archway under hoodmould leads into pointed tunnel vault on three chamfered ribs. Low upper storey, rebuilt as muniment room, has two-light mullioned window and embattled parapet with gabled copings. Early C19 pointed archway on rear. Single-storey, two bay office has two- and three-light ovolo-mullioned windows and a steeply-pitched roof with overhanging eaves and verge. Tall corniced ridge stack. Tudor-arched doorway; identical doorway in projecting porch on rear. Single-storey, one-bay lodge with added lean-to bay on right. C19 pointed doorway on left return under vault of gatehouse, two-light mullioned windows under hoodmoulds. Tall flat-coped parapets. Left bay projects on rear. Later C19 one-storey range of sheds on front of lodge and built against inside of wall (q.v.). Tall flat-coped, L-plan wall. 8.0-metre long section on front of lodge has three regularly-spaced, two-stage buttresses with offsets. Short return section to right with identical buttress.
Historical note: Sherburn Hospital was founded c.1181 by Bishop Le Puiset as a lazar-house for the reception of 65 people affected by leprosy. It declined in C16 and was badly damaged during the Civil War. Medieval remains are now only seen in the gatehouse and chapel (Item 12/84).
Listing NGR: NZ3076841543
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109961
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gibby, C W, Sherburn Hospital, (1976)
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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