Listed Building: HERBERT HOSPITAL (INCLUDING DETACHED SUMMERHOUSE) (101703)

1. ALUMHURST ROAD 5180 (East Side) Herbert Hospital (including detached summerhouse) SZ 0690 2/69 II 2. Originally the Herbert Memorial Convalescent Home, 1865-7 by T H Wyatt. Very competently, grouped asymmetrical Gothic, Purbeck stone with red brick bands, mostly mullioned windows. Porch-tower with statue and clock (in diamond frame), short spire with lucarnes on brick and stone machicolated cornice. Few windows on entrance side: horizontal emphasis of hipped roofs, brick bands and chamfered corners. East wing connected by single-storey link up hill to former chapel with traceried windows and cupola, flanked by lower room with bows. West wing with canted bay facing down drive and 3 gables to south. Centre of south front almost symmetrical (but not axial with entrance): two 2-storey canted bays with red brick spandrels. Single-storey south-east wing. Chimneys by contrast of stucco and Italianate with bracketed cornice and openwork frame to pots. Edwardian summerhouse of white timber circa 1910, with battered corners and splayed hipped roof, detached from main building. Listing NGR: SZ0692590801

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Feb 12 2013 4:30PM