Beech House, Oak House And Linden House At Upton Hospital

SU 97 NE SLOUGH ALBERT STREET (north side)

4/6 Beech House, Oak House, And Linden House At Upton Hospital (SU 9776 7942)

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Union Workhouse, now hospital 1835-6, by Sampson Kempthorne. Stock brick, rendered ground floor to south with banded rustication, and hipped slate roofs. Cruciform plan with central octagonal staircase block, and 3 storey block to south with lower flanking wings. South front: 3 storeys with cill bands and deep eaves. 5 bays with glazing bar sashes, those on first floor with blind hoods. Central half glazed door with triangular pedimented hood on brackets. Flanking 2 storey one bay wings. Later flanking one storey wings slightly set back with louvred clerestorys, scattered glazing bar sashes and half glazed doors. The Mrs. Sinkins Pink was first raised here circa 1880 by the Master of the workhouse and named after his wife, the Matron. B.O.E, (Bucks, p.238; The History Of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973, pp. 115-6; The Story Of Slough, Judith Hunter, Local Heritage Books, 1983, pp.58-60.

Listing NGR: SU9777079448