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NAYLAND WITH WISSINGTON - TL 93 SE 15/10000 Jane Walker Hospital GV II

Tuberculosis hospital, now psychiatric hospital. Circa 1898-1900 by Smith and Brewer (with Dr Jane Walker as medical superintendent) for the East Anglian Sanatorium Company. Roughcast brick with hipped and gable-ended plain tile roofs with deep eaves. Rendered brick axial and gable end stacks with tapered pots. Plan: Butterfly plan facing SE: with wards at front and axial passages behind in the wings, centre of the front originally open and with staircase behind; main entrance in gable end of west wing. The central rear wing contains entrance and offices etc, branching from it the kitchen wing on right and hall on left, attached to which is the chapel (qv). Late Victorian Free Style. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Long SE front 1:6:1:3:1:6:1 bays. Centre 3 bays with giant polygonal piers, originally open on ground floor. Wings at obtuse angle with canted end bays and 6 windows between divided by giant pilasters with paved eaves brackets above. Small gables and balconies over end bays, wide flat roof dormers, centre dormer with segmental pediment and round light, behind which a cupola with broken cornice over paired columns and small angular dome with large weathervane. West gable end has tall entrance with battered buttresses and large segmental headed overlight; east end has broad lozenge-shaped stack off centre with doorway and oriel in arched recess. Deep eaves and flat roof dormers at rear. All casement windows with glazing bars. Hall has weatherboarded gables jettied out on brackets, battered buttresses and large semi-circular window in gable over entrance. Interior: Plastered polygonal barrel-vaulted hall. Double-return main staircase on 2 floors with short octagonal tapered columns and thick stick balusters. Sources: 1. The Builder 29 November 1902, pp 496-7 2. A S Gray, Edwardian Architects, p334 3. A Service, Edwardian Architecture, p209

Listing NGR: TL9516334310

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)