Laundry at the former King Edward VII Hospital
The Engine House, King Edward VII Estate, Kings Drive, Easebourne, GU29 0FA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390657
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Laundry at the former King Edward VII Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- The Engine House, King Edward VII Estate, Kings Drive, Easebourne, GU29 0FA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390657
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Laundry at the former King Edward VII Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Engine House, King Edward VII Estate, Kings Drive, Easebourne, GU29 0FA
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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:
- The Engine House, King Edward VII Estate, Kings Drive, Easebourne, GU29 0FA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Chichester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Easebourne
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 87834 25010
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/10/2019
1899/0/10035
EASEBOURNE
Kings Drive
King Edward VII Estate
The Engine House
Laundry at the King Edward VII Hospital
(Formerly listed as Laundry at the King Edward VII Hospital, WEST HEATH ROAD)
31-JUL-03
II
Hospital laundry, including engine and boiler house. Circa 1903, designed by the firm of Adams, Holden and Pearson as part of the scheme for King Edward VII tubercular sanatorium. Free Tudor style. Built of red brick with stone dressings, tile-hanging to gables and tiled roof with brick chimneystacks. Laundry engine and boiler house were housed on the lower level of the sloping site with laundry on the upper level accessed by road at the front. One or two storeys and attics: four windows to front, five to side. Casements with leaded lights.
EXTERIOR: front elevation at upper level has brick ground floor. Left side former five-mullioned casement window has three central mullions adapted to later C20 opening. Two central mullioned windows, one with doorcase, are as built. Right end window modified. Two tile-hung gables with three-light casements and central mansard with four-light window. A tall square boiler chimney rises through the rear of the building with a stone band, battered towards the base. Left side elevation is of two storeys brick with five round-headed openings flanked by buttresses to the lower level and five casement windows above. One tile-hung gable with canted bay window and a dormer window.
HISTORY: the building had a carefully designed production process so that dirty linen could be brought from the hospital by subway "entering by the receiving room, then to the wash-house, the drying room, ironing room, airing room, to the delivery room where it will be sorted and sent back to the sanatorium" and it is described and illustrated in an article about the King Edward VII Sanatorium by the architect H P Adams in "Architectural Review" of 1906.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491046
- 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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