Highcroft Hospital, Main Building
HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL, MAIN BUILDING, HIGHCROFT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1351967
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1998
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL, MAIN BUILDING, HIGHCROFT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1351967
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1998
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL, MAIN BUILDING, HIGHCROFT ROAD
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:
- SP1010891494
Details
SP 19 SW
997/4/10148
BIRMINGHAM
HIGHCROFT ROAD
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: SP1010891494
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 471803
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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