Entrance Block And Casual Wards At Wharfedale General Hospital

SE 14 NE; 805/7/10010 15-NOV-00

OTLEY, NEWALL CARR ROAD (west, off), Entrance Block and Casual Wards at Wharfedale General Hospital

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Entrance block and casual wards at former Wharfedale Union Workhouse. 1871-73, by the local architects C S and A J Nelson for the Wharfedale Poor Law Union. Mid and late C20 alterations and additions. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with coped gables and prominent coped side wall and gable stacks. Gothic Revival style. Plinth and dentillated eaves. Single storey; nine unequal bays. In the centre, a pointed arched carriage entrance with hood mould, under a coped gable and finial. To left, two renewed windows with linked hood moulds, and to right, an original plain sash with hood mould. To left, a higher block with facing gable, containing three pointed arched windows with hoodmoulds, and above them, a round opening. Beyond, a lower block with three renewed windows under a hipped roof. To right, a minor gable with two pointed arched windows with linked hood moulds, flanked by single plain sashes. To right again, a higher block with facing gable, containing three reglazed pointed arched windows, and above them a round opening. To right again, a lower workshop with two small barred windows under a hipped roof. Rear elevation largely masked by later C20 single-storey flat-roofed additions. At the south end, two smaller lean-to additions. INTERIOR: plain offices, that north of the carriage entrance with beaded 4-panel door. Workshop to north has strutted king-post roof.

Listing NGR: SE1996446556