Former Circular Ward For St Giles Hospital
FORMER CIRCULAR WARD FOR ST GILES HOSPITAL, 7, HAVIL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385597
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Former Circular Ward For St Giles Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CIRCULAR WARD FOR ST GILES HOSPITAL, 7, HAVIL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385597
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Circular Ward For St Giles Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CIRCULAR WARD FOR ST GILES HOSPITAL, 7, HAVIL STREET
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 CIRCULAR WARD FOR ST GILES HOSPITAL, 7, HAVIL STREET
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 33192 76921
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3376 HAVIL STREET 636-1/11/422 (West side) 30/12/86 No.7 Former circular ward for St Giles' Hospital (Formerly Listed as: HAVIL STREET No.7 Circular Ward at St Giles Hospital)
II
Hospital ward. 1888. By Robert P Whellock. For St Giles' Hospital. Dark red brick with stone dressings; tiled steeply pitched roof. Circular plan with polygonal extension to west and smaller north projection. 4 identical storeys, basement and attic with gabled dormers above brick cornice. Round-headed windows to basement; small-paned casements with fixed overlights and stone lintels to upper floors, square-headed except those at 3rd floor beneath gables, which are round-headed with keystones. Pilasters between windows rising from ground to 3rd-floor sills. Iron balconies on all floors to south-west. Ventilation shaft runs full height of building, emerging above roofline as central octagonal chimney stack with gablets below. Each floor designed as an open ward arranged radially around outer wall. North and west extensions designed for lifts, nurses' accommodation etc., and some isolation wards at attic level. Basement originally a fuel store for central furnace. INTERIOR: not inspected. Designed as one of 2 identical towers, the second never built. Of historic interest as early and rare example of circular hospital ward.
Listing NGR: TQ3319276921
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471000
- 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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