Master'S Lodge At Holgate'S Hospital

SE41SW 5/74 6.6.1952

SOUTH HIENDLEY ROBIN LANE (north side) Master's Lodge at Holgate's Hospital (formerly listed by inclusion, under "Archbishop Holgate's Hospital with Chapel, Porter's Lodge and Master's House").

GV II

Master's lodge to almshouses known as Holgate's Hospital. c1860; altered. Brick with sandstone dressings, tiled roof. Long rectangular plan with rear service wing. Some Tudor-revival and Gothic features, but mostly of plain utilitarian design. Two storeys plus attics, 6 x 2 bays; raised sill bands to both floors; south front has gabled 1st bay (built as crosswing), gabled 2-storey 3rd bay, and gabled attic dormer to 5th bay; entrance in 2nd bay, protected by porch of 3 stilted arches on short columns with crocketed capitals, the centre archway higher and recessed, with hoodmould run out as a band; crow-stepped parapet rising to steeply-pitched gable over the centre, with stepped apex. To left of porch, gabled 1st bay has extruded chimney stack and one window at ground floor to left of this; to right of porch, 2- storey bay has large tripartite window at ground floor, a dripband above this, a large square window at 1st floor, steeply-pitched gable with stone coping and kneelers; elsewhere, vertical-rectangular windows of one or two lights, and small arched attic window to 4th bay; all windows have altered glazing. Steeply-pitched roof with fish-scale bands, chimney at left gable and on the ridge, both with raised bands and cornices. Two-bay left return wall has two 2-storey bays, that on the left rectangular with a steeply- pitched gable, and that on the right canted, with steeply-pitched hipped roof; 2 bands at 1st floor, and saw-toothed eaves band; glazing altered except at ground floor of left bay, which has coupled 4-pane sashes. Interior: not inspected, but said to have features of interest, such as Tudor-style staircase. History: see Holgate's Hospital; south range (above). Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SE4104212556