Boiler House And Laundry North Of Jane Walker Hospital

NAYLAND WITH WISSINGTON - TL 93 SE 15/10002 Boiler house and laundry north of Jane Walker Hospital GV II

Boiler-house and laundry to Jane Walker Hospital (qv). Circa 1898-1900 by Smith and Brewer for the East Anglian Sanatorium Company. English bond brick. Pantile roofs with gabled and hipped ends. Plan: Long narrow SE range is the laundry with water tower and integral chimney at its NW end, at right angles to which is the boilerhouse with broad double-span roof. Functional late Victorian Free Style. Exterior: 1 storey. The broad twin gables of the boilerhouse are glazed and supported on battered brick buttresses, and originally with large doors below; on the north side a low- pitched gabled vehicular entrance with segmental arch; on south side of boilerhouse a segmental window in wide gable. The laundry wing has large segmental-headed 4-light windows with glazing bars on the west side and a louvred ventilator on the ridge. On north a large rectangular water tower surmounted by an iron tank with railings on top and iron ladder on side by the integral tapered chimney which rises above the level of the tank. Interior: not inspected. Source: The Builder, 29 November, pp496-7

Listing NGR: TL9516534357