Administration Building at Severalls Hospital
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT SEVERALLS HOSPITAL, BOXTED ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395299
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Administration Building at Severalls Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT SEVERALLS HOSPITAL, BOXTED ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395299
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Administration Building at Severalls Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT SEVERALLS HOSPITAL, BOXTED ROAD
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:
- ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT SEVERALLS HOSPITAL, BOXTED ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Myland
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 99315 28457
Reasons for Designation
The Adminstrative Building to Severalls Hospital, opened in 1910 to the designs of Essex County Council architect Frank Whitmore, is a fine Queen Anne Style building with a handsome facade and well preserved interior, that makes a dignified architectural announcement to this early-C20 echelon plan former county asylum, the landscape of which is Grade II on the Registry of Parks and Gardens.
Details
584/0/10056 BOXTED ROAD 10-NOV-03 Administration Building at Severalls H ospital
II Administrative Building. 1910-13. Frank Whitmore, Essex County architect and W.H. Town, ARIBA. Red brick with stone dressings, hipped and mansard tile roofs. 2-storey rectangular plan building in a Queen Anne style, sited at the northern apex of the central spine of buildings in this echelon plan asylum.
EXTERIOR: NORTH elevation symmetrical with central entrance bay flanked by 5-window bay ranges. These are have multi-pane sashes, taller at first floor, and dominant 2-storey bows of 3 bays. A deep cornice follows the bows to the slightly advanced central entrance bay. This has a prominent stone portal with deep overhanging segmental arch canopy on stone brackets, within which a canted entrance with abstract voussoirs radiating from the round-headed doorway, and a fixed light with keystone to each side above stone dedication plaques. Double wooden doors have metal detailing to overlight with 'S', the 3-sword symbol of Essex, and 'X'. First floor has group of 3 tall paned sashes within stone surround to cornice level, above which a deep stone segmental pediment with central clock. Behind this a tall mansard tower with circular louver in scrolled copper surround, and capped with stone cupola supported by arched openings with corner dwarf ionic columns. Deep cornice wraps to SIDE elevations, blind except for narrow sash to rear. REAR elevation has small later-C20 extension and links to the central spine of the hospital complex that is not included in the listing.
INTERIOR: includes plastered beamed ceilings, tall wood fireplaces, and wide stair framed by tall ionic columns with metal balusters in Art Nouveau style. Central dome to first floor with glazed oculus.
HISTORY: This formed the main administrative building to the second Essex County Lunatic Asylum, a large echelon plan complex built 1910-13 to serve c.1500 patients. Plaques announce the foundation stone was laid in 1910. SOURCES: Elain Harwood, The History and Plan Forms of Purpose Built Lunatic Asylums. Harriet Richardson, Ed. English Hospitals 1660-1948. RCHME, 1998. Adam Garwood, Essex Hospitals 1800-1948. ECC 1999.
Administration Building with a handsome facade and well-preserved interior that makes a dignified architectural announcement to this early-C20 echelon plan former county asylum, the landscape of which is Grade II on the Registry of Parks and Gardens.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 501639
- 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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