Nightingale House
NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, EYTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366552
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Nightingale House
- Statutory Address:
- NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, EYTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366552
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Nightingale House
- Statutory Address 1:
- NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, EYTON LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, NEWTOWN
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:
- NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, EYTON LANE
- Statutory Address:
- NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, NEWTOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Baschurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 42539 22080
Details
BASCHURCH C.P. NEWTOWN SJ 42 SW 15/23 Nightingale House - GV II House, latterly part of hospital, now residential home for the elderly. Late C18 extended early to mid-C19 with later additions and alterations. Red brick on chamfered ashlar plinth; slate roof with coped verges on carved stone kneelers to right gable end. External end stacks, that to right with wide base. Original 3-bay house extended by further 3 bays to left in C19 (see straight joint). 3 storeys with moulded stone eaves cornice to C18 part and toothed eaves cornice to C19 addition. C18 part has glazing bar sashes with gauged heads, of reduced proportions to second floor. Central entrance has 4-panel door (upper panels now glazed) in round-arched fluted pilastered doorcase with plain semi-circular fanlight and bracketed open pediment. C19 extension has 3 closely spaced glazing bar sashes with sandstone wedge lintels scored in imitation of gauged brick heads. Venetian window with stone surround to ground floor. Stone tablet at junction between 2 parts on ground floor (erected by Baschurch Womens' Institute to commemorate the coronation of Elizabeth II) records that the house was the centre of the first open-air hospital for cripples in the world, founded by Dame Agnes Hunt in 1900. Lower C19 ranges to rear.
Listing NGR: SJ4253922080
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260722
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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