Tower At Seacroft Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Tower. 1 related planning application.
Tower At Seacroft Hospital
- WRENN ID
- woven-buttress-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- Tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE33SE 714-1/12/1082 05/08/76
LEEDS YORK ROAD, Seacroft (South side) Tower at Seacroft Hospital
II
Water tower. 1902-4. By ET Hall. Arts and Crafts influence. Tall red brick tower, square on plan and tapered. Wide cornice, parapet ramped up at corners. Moulded cornice below, segmentally-arched over clock face on each side with terracotta surrounds. Below is continuous iron-railed balcony on all sides with low but wide segmentally-arched window beneath. The bottom half of the tower has plain walls with only a few small windows. INTERIOR: cast-iron spiral stair in left corner, water tanks removed. The water tanks help up to 40,000 gallons for this (seacroft) and Killinbeck hospitals. HISTORY: Seacroft hospital was originally built in the grounds of the former Manston Hall, as a temporary smallpox hospital in 1893; it was extended for scarlet fever in 1898 by Thomas Hewson, City Engineer. 1902-04 permanent hospital for scarlet fever; diptheria and eutric fever built. (RCHME: Report: Seacroft Hospital: 1995-).
Listing NGR: SE3501034612
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