Infirmary Block and Linking Corridors at Former New End Hospital
Infirmary block and linking corridors at former New End Hospital, New End
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322109
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Infirmary Block and Linking Corridors at Former New End Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- Infirmary block and linking corridors at former New End Hospital, New End
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322109
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Infirmary Block and Linking Corridors at Former New End Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- Infirmary block and linking corridors at former New End Hospital, New End
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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:
- Infirmary block and linking corridors at former New End Hospital, New End
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26431 85961
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 June 2025 to amend the language in the description
TQ2685NW
798-1/26/1192
CAMDEN
CAMDEN
NEW END
Infirmary block and linking corridors at former New End Hospital
GV
II
Hampstead parish workhouse infirmary block. 1869-1871, extended in similar style 1878; all designed by John Giles of Messrs Giles & Bevan. Converted for residential use 1996-1998, John Thompson Associates, architects. Yellow stock brick with brick bands at floor levels. Hipped, low pitched slated roof. Four storeys and basement. A long, single depth range with attached tower to the south end and linking corridors to the north. Segmental brick arches with stuccoed keystones to recessed sashes. Tower has cast-iron balcony to top floor. Linking corridors formed on a cast-iron frame of Tuscan columns, each floor corridor of separate timber construction and continuously glazed with six-pane sliding sashes.
INTERIORS: plain and functional.
HISTORICAL NOTE: following a damning report on the state of workhouses in The Lancet of July 1865 the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867 insisted on the provision of separate accommodation for poor relief and medical provisions of the Poor Law. A visit by the inspecting Medical Officer to Hampstead in July 1868 had found the available accommodation totally inadequate with some male paupers sleeping in straw in an open shed. Steps to provide further accommodation were immediately put in hand, that at Hampstead one of the first and oldest surviving: the infirmary also housed a separation ward and a lying-in ward. It was designed in response to Florence Nightingale's reforms in nursing and hospital design giving high, light wards which were narrow enough to allow cross-ventilation. The former infirmary block forms a linked group with the New End Hospital former Workhouse Block (qv), the Circular Ward & attached Water Tower (qv), and the Boilerhouse Chimney (qv).
It has exceptional townscape value.
Listing NGR: TQ2643185961
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477581
- 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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