Listed Building: CASTLE HILL HOUSE (MATERNITY ANNEXE TO WESTMINSTER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL) (101979)

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Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 688/2/24
Date assigned 15 October 1973
Date last amended

Description

1. 1615 BIMPORT (North-West Side) Castle Hill House (Maternity Annexe to Westminster Memorial Hospital) ST 8622 2/24 II 2. Late C18 house in own grounds. Main front at right angles to road. Rough ashlar walls, cornice, parapet. Additions at back. Main front is 2-storey, 3-window, the 1st floor windows being sashes with stone architraves and projecting keys. Flanking doorway on ground floor are Venetian windows with strip pilasters between lights and dentil entablatures. Round heads to side lights and moulded archivolts to central lights. Good doorway with segmental dentil hood supported on enriched console brackets. Frieze has swag-and-vase enrichment of "Adam" type. Flight of steps leads up to doorway; 6 steps flanked by iron handrails terminating at base in scrolls. Listing NGR: ST8601022951

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Location

Grid reference ST 8600 2295 (point)
Civil Parish Shaftesbury; Dorset
District (historic) North Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Mar 12 2020 9:37AM