Lazar House is a Grade II* listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A C12 Hospital, almshouse. 2 related planning applications.
Lazar House
- WRENN ID
- lone-trefoil-onyx
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1954
- Type
- Hospital, almshouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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TG 21 SW 2/835
SPROWSTON ROAD (east side) No. 219 (Lazar House)
26.2.54
II* Former leprosy Hospital (Magdalen Chapel) C12. Later an almshouse until C17. Restored 1906 by Sir Eustace Gurney and subsequently a Branch Library. Now a day centre for people with learning disabilities. Flint rubble with stone and some brick dressings; pantiled roof.
Now L-plan. Two storeys (mostly open to roof); six window range at right-angles to street. Norman doorway in gable end has attached shafts with cushion capitals and roll-moulded voussoirs. Round-headed window (renewed) above with two small blind slits and two oculi with brick dressings at the head of the gable. Right-side elevation has a damaged Norman door and another blocked door with four-centred brick arch. Red brick reconstruction with two- and three-light mullioned and transomed windows, together with a single-storey wing at right angles and its projecting porch presumably date from the early C20 restoration.
Interior: medieval window splays and dressings include two round headed arches with earstone dressings in the west gable. Most roof-timbers replaced. Founded before 1119 by Herbert de Losigna, the nave was used as the hospital and the chancel served as a chapel for the inmates.
Listing NGR: TG2356510413
Detailed Attributes
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