FORMER WORCESTER EYE HOSPITAL

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
List Entry Name:: FORMER WORCESTER EYE HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: FORMER WORCESTER EYE HOSPITAL, BARBOURNE ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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)

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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.