SEXEY'S HOSPITAL EAST WING AND GATEWAY LINK TO WEST

SEXEY'S HOSPITAL EAST WING AND GATEWAY LINK TO WEST, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1346164
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: SEXEY'S HOSPITAL EAST WING AND GATEWAY LINK TO WEST
Statutory Address:: SEXEY'S HOSPITAL EAST WING AND GATEWAY LINK TO WEST, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1346164
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: SEXEY'S HOSPITAL EAST WING AND GATEWAY LINK TO WEST
Statutory Address 1:: SEXEY'S HOSPITAL EAST WING AND GATEWAY LINK TO WEST, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SEXEY'S HOSPITAL EAST WING AND GATEWAY LINK TO WEST, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bruton
National Grid Reference:: ST6812234737

Details

ST6834NW 8/119

BRUTON CP HIGH STREET (South side) Sexey's Hospital: East Wing and gateway link to West

24.3.61

GV II

Almshouse. Early C19, extended in 1882. Local stone cut and squared with Doulting stone dressings; Welsh slate roof behind parapets and coped gables; stone chimney stacks with moulded caps. In plain Gothic style; 'U'-plan, mostly 3 storeys; street facade of 2 storeys, 11 bays, of which bay 11 is slightly projecting and gabled. Plinth, eaves course, plain parapet; hollow chamfered mullioned windows with cusped head single or 2-lights under continuous stepped label; door set in moulded cambered arch bay 3, 4-light window over lower bays 4 and 5, projecting chimney stack between bays 8 and 9; windows to bay 11 deeper, with individual labels, with 2-light pointed arch blind window and open quatrefoil panel in gable. Linking doorway to West, on street line, has moulded 4-centre arch under rectangular hood with carved foliage in spandrils. West facade, to main courtyard, 3 storeys, 7 bays, has mostly 2 cusped head light windows under separate labels; to second floor 4-centred arched similar 2-light windows without labels; cambered arched doorways to bays 4 and 6. South garden elevation of 3 storeys (bay 1 is 4 storeys) with 5 bays, all windows flat headed, mostly 2-light under labels but with two stepped 3-lights to bays 4 and 5. A rebuilding of part of the Hospital in the early C19; in 1882 it was extended Eastwards to accommodate a training school for domestic servants, now absorbed into almshouse. (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972).

Listing NGR: ST6812234737

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.