ISOLATION HOSPITAL AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL

ISOLATION HOSPITAL AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL, HITCHIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376805
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:: ISOLATION HOSPITAL AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: ISOLATION HOSPITAL AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL, HITCHIN ROAD

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Date:: 2007-01-14
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376805
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:: ISOLATION HOSPITAL AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: ISOLATION HOSPITAL AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL, HITCHIN 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:: ISOLATION HOSPITAL AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL, HITCHIN ROAD

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

District:: Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Fairfield
National Grid Reference:: TL2052535371

Details

TL 23 NW 346/5/10004

STOTFIELD HITCHIN ROAD

Isolation Hospital at Fairfield Hospital

GV II

Isolation hospital, now disused. 1878, by George Fowler Jones. Mid C20 additions. Yellow brick, with ashlar and red brick dressings, and slate roofs. Large, coped side wall and ridge stacks. Italianate style. Plinth and sill bands. Windows are segment headed glazing bar sashes with polychrome heads. Central administration block, 2 storeys, with single storey service block to rear and an angled ward wing, single storey, on each side. Half-butterfly plan. Central block has 2 windows on each floor and hipped roof with dentillated eaves. On each side, a short corridor, single storey, with one window to left and 2 to right. Ward wings, T-plan, have hipped projections next to the corridor, with single windows. On the inner sides of the wards, lean-to sun rooms, mid C20. Outer ends have gables with open verandahs, flanked by sanitary blocks. Verandahs, 3 bays, have segmental polychrome arches on cast iron columns with waterleaf capitals. Above, 3 pairs of small round arched windows, and above again, a round louvred opening with 4 keystones. Under the verandah, fitted benches, a doorway and 2 windows. Sanitary blocks have a small window on each side. Service block has hipped roof and 3 windows.

Listing NGR: TL2052535371

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Legacy System number:: 468934
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.