HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL, MAIN BUILDING

HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL, MAIN BUILDING, HIGHCROFT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1351967
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL, MAIN BUILDING
Statutory Address:: HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL, MAIN BUILDING, HIGHCROFT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1351967
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL, MAIN BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL, MAIN BUILDING, HIGHCROFT ROAD

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:: HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL, MAIN BUILDING, HIGHCROFT ROAD

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

District:: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 10088 91492

Details

SP 19 SW BIRMINGHAM HIGHCROFT ROAD

997/4/10148 Highcroft Hospital, main building II

Former Aston Union Workhouse. 1869 by Yeoville Thomason. Built by Jeffrey & Pritchard. Red brick with blue brick and stone dressings and bands. Tiled roofs with a deep enriched eaves cornice. High Victorian Gothic style. Slightly projecting central bay of 5 windows flanked by long ranges. 3 storeys. Brick and stone banded round-arched entrance surmounted by a Gothic traceried pediment inscribed "Aston Union/This memorial stone was laid by Thomas Colmore Esquire/Chairman of the Board of Guardians/AD 1869/Yeoville Thomason Architect/Jeffery & Pritchard Builders. Ground and 1st floor 4-pane sashes with patterned cambered arch heads; 2nd floor small-pane sashes with patterned pointed heads. Flanking ranges in similar style. Appearing from behind the entrance, the rectangular plan tower with arcaded pointed windows and pyramidal roof having a tall brick chimney stack at each angle and surmounted by a louvered cupola. Interior: Entrance hall with timber brackets supporting a currently clad stained glass ceiling, originally lit from the tower windows. 2 pointed arch doorways flank a large pointed arch over a stair to the rear recreation hall with heavy timber arch-braced open truss roof and stage.

Listing NGR: SP1008891492

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Legacy System number:: 471803
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.