Former Kidderminster General Hospital including revetment and front area railings to south west is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1992. Hospital. 2 related planning applications.
Former Kidderminster General Hospital including revetment and front area railings to south west
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1992
- Type
- Hospital
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former hospital, built between 1870 and 1871 by J G Bland, and later converted into apartments by 1999. It was extended in 1886, 1888, 1902, and 1926. The structure is primarily red brick with blue brick and limestone dressings, topped with a steeply pitched plain tile roof, hipped at the centre and gabled at the ends. It features large brick axial and lateral stacks with set-offs. The architectural style is High Victorian Gothic.
The plan is a small example of a pavilion layout, with a central administration block containing the entrance and stairs, and wards arranged axially on either side. The 1926 extension on the south east is not considered to be of special architectural interest.
The exterior is three and two storeys, with a symmetrical arrangement of eleven bays. The central three-storey, three-bay administration block has a hipped roof with finials and cresting, flanked by large stacks and a projecting gabled bay containing a porch. Above the pointed arch in the gable is a canted stone bay with a cinquefoil design. The flanking sections have two-light windows and, on the ground floor, three-light pointed arch windows with stone colonnettes. The pavilion wings have hipped roofs and smaller gabled projecting wings at either end. Limestone coping with corbelled kneelers tops the gables, and the brick eaves are corbelled with blue brick bands. Wooden, louvred ventilators with pyramidal roofs are positioned over the end bays. Gabled end elevations and a gabled stair wing extending from the rear feature three lancet windows and a quatrefoil above.
The hospital is elevated above Mill Street and incorporates a tall brick revetment with a blind arcade of depressed two-centre arches, above which are railings and piers. A pointed archway leads to a dispensary on the right.
Inside, the open-well staircase has a cast-iron balustrade and a gothic newel panelled vaulted ceiling. Lancet windows with stained glass, dating from 1888 and erected in memory of Lady Kingsale, are found on the staircase. There are also two smaller stained glass windows located at the back of the hall.
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