Somerset Hospital is a Grade II* listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. A Early Modern Almshouse. 7 related planning applications.
Somerset Hospital
- WRENN ID
- empty-steel-bistre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1955
- Type
- Almshouse
- Period
- Early Modern
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 9721 PETWORTH NORTH STREET (east side)
29/347 Somerset Hospital
22.2.55
GV II*
Built as a private residence in the early C17. Converted into almshouses in 1746. Two storeys and attic. Five windows. Two hipped dormers. Red brick with some stone rubble. Tiled roof. Casement windows with cement-coated brick mullions and transoms. In the centre is a projecting porch with a round-headed brick archway having a dripstone over it and 2 sashes above surmounted by a shaped gable. On each side is a 2 sash bay with one window between each and the porch. Over the doorway is a tablet recording: ""This almshouse, usually called the Upper Hospital, was founded and endowed with divers farms and lands by Charles Duke of Somerset in 1746". Massive chimney breast on the north wall. Long L-wing behind of lower elevation and later date than the front.
Listing NGR: SU9770021964
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