Maudsley Hospital Administration Block
MAUDSLEY HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION BLOCK, DENMARK HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385464
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Maudsley Hospital Administration Block
- Statutory Address:
- MAUDSLEY HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION BLOCK, DENMARK HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385464
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Maudsley Hospital Administration Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAUDSLEY HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION BLOCK, DENMARK HILL
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:
- MAUDSLEY HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION BLOCK, DENMARK HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32663 76145
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3276 DENMARK HILL 636-1/11/280 (East side) Maudsley Hospital, Administration Block
GV II
Psychiatric hospital. Planned and designed between 1911, when the site was acquired, to 1923. Laid out by William Charles Clifford Smith, the engineer for the Asylums Board of the LCC. Smith was assisted by LC Gregory, who had consulted with Henry Maudsley, the noted pioneer of psychiatric hospitals, and Frederick Mott, who was appointed pathologist to the Asylums Board in 1895. MATERIALS: red Southwater brick in Flemish bond with Portland stone dressings. Hipped roofs of slate. PLAN: 23-window range, organised on a pavilioned plan with end and centre units. Main entrance in centre unit. 2 storeys over basement. 3-window range to all projecting pavilions. Main entrance of Portland stone, flat-arched with projecting cornice and architrave, flat-arched window to either side with similar surrounds having, in addition, a large rectangular block between lintel and cornice, perhaps originally intended for sculpture. Windows above are segmental-arched with eared and shouldered architraves. This centre treated as a 'distyle in antis' portico of the Tuscan order; in parapet above are cut the words "The Maudsley Hospital". All ground-floor windows in intermediate range flat-arched with flush stone surrounds and pediments consisting of raking cornice to centre lights only. The projecting end bays have segmental-arched windows on ground floor, with eared and shouldered architrave and keyed lintel; flat-arched windows above with similar surrounds; flush stone corner quoins. Remaining windows have plain stone lintels. End pavilions terminate in pediments pierced by one oval light each, the lights ornamented with palm fronds in stone. High-hipped roof above entrance range has a flat-arched dormer, a later insertion, and above a cupola, square in plan with rebated corners, and a pediment similar to those on the ground-floor windows to each face. Second entrance to right-hand end pavilion, set in architrave with projecting cornice. Fielded and corniced stacks to left return only and on 4th window range; ridge stacks on line with ends of centre pavilion. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Late C20 annexes to left and right returns and rear and attached railings enclosing a shallow porch to either side of entrance are not of interest and are not included. The hospital was the first and most influential example of its type and thus has great historical interest.
Listing NGR: TQ3266376145
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470862
- 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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