Description

BEDALE SOUTH END SE 2687-2787 (west side) 9/50 Mowbray Grange - II Workhouse now geriatric hospital. 1839. Limestone with ashlar dressings with a Welsh slate roof. Central block of 3 storeys, 3 bays, flanked by lower 2-storey, 3-bay wings with pedimented l-bay pavilions to each side. To either side a wall with gateways and a 1-storey, l-bay block beyond. Central block: central half-glazed door with fanlight in stone surround with consoles and cornice. Flanked by round-arched windows with margin glazing and segmental relieving arches. 1st floor: cill band, 16-pane sashes with flat arches. 2nd floor: casements with flat arches. Side wings: ground floor has 3 sashes with glazing bars and stone cills. 1st floor: band; 3 narrow sashes with glazing bars to central bays, 16-pane sashes to outer bays, all with flat arches. Pavilions: giant round-headed arch breaks forward enclosing on ground floor 2 narrow 4-pane sashes with margin glazing bars, stone cills, lintels and band above and on lst-floor a Diocletian window with casement and cill band. Stone coped wall to either side with board carriage gates. Beyond stone coped gabled blocks with round-arched recesses. That to left has a sash with glazing bars and impost band, that to right has C20 wooden carriage door. Central 3 bays have pyramidal roof and end stacks. A ridge stack to wings either side.

Listing NGR: SE2690787906

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)