Former Worcester Eye Hospital
FORMER WORCESTER EYE HOSPITAL, BARBOURNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359568
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Former Worcester Eye Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WORCESTER EYE HOSPITAL, BARBOURNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359568
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Former Worcester Eye Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER WORCESTER EYE HOSPITAL, BARBOURNE ROAD
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:
- FORMER WORCESTER EYE HOSPITAL, BARBOURNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 84607 56073
Details
WORCESTER
SO8456SE BARBOURNE ROAD
620-1/6/33 (West side)
05/04/71 Former Worcester Eye
Hospital
(Formerly Listed as:
BARBOURNE ROAD
(West side)
Worcester City and County
Eye Hospital)
GV II
House, was hospital. c1780 with later additions and
alterations including wing to right-return. Red brick with
stone and painted stucco dressings and slate pitched roof with
parapeted gables. End stacks to main range, one with
oversailing details and pots. Lead and timber porch. Main
range of 3-storeys, 5 (2:1:2) first-floor windows, with
2-storey, four-window range at right. Stone and stucco
detailing includes plinth, plain frieze, moulded cornice and
blocking course, window sills, Tuscan-style porch. Ground- and
first-floors have 6/6 sashes throughout, 3/3 sashes to
second-floor, all in plain reveals with sills and flat gauged
brick arches. Main range has recessed paired entrance doors,
lower panels flush-beaded, upper panels raised and fielded to
right, glazed to left, all under double-width fanlight in
petal design, moulded architrave with corner paterae;
stoneflagged threshold. Wing has central entrance, part-glazed
C20door with multi-pane overlight, flat gauged brick arch
over. Further entrance at the extreme right, 6-panel door,
bead and reel moulding to arrisses of architrave, open corner
porch, tented roof cantilevered on large brackets; crowning
low parapet.
INTERIOR: main wing retains many original details including
open-well staircase with wreathed handrail and slender turned
balusters; some panelled doors, panelled window shutters,
architraves, skirtings, dado, and picture rails; plaster
cornices, many enriched, some with modillions; several
fireplaces, some with marble surrounds and cast-iron hob
grates.
HISTORICAL NOTE: shown as Thornloe House on 1886 OS Map;
between 1940-1995 it was the City and County Eye Hospital.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334; Gwilliam HW: Old Worcester:
1977-: 58,59).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488507
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 334
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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