Description

LEEDS

SE23NE HOSPITAL LANE, Ireland Wood
714-1/6/881 (South side)
Ida Convalescent Hospital

GV II

Convalescent hospital. c1890. By Chorley and Connon. Stone,
render and mock timber-frame, slate roof. Arts and Crafts
style.
Central 3-storey, 3-bay reception block has coursed stone
ground floor with cambered arch and cross windows, rendered
1st floor with central oriel, paired black-and-white gables
above each with a 5-light casement, that to right now 3-light.
The upper gables are rendered and jettied. Flanking angled
single-storey wings each have 4 projecting gabled open
verandas, now walled up and glazed, mock timbering in apex of
each gable.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A plaque in the rear entrance hall states that the building
was given by Mr and Mrs North for the use of patients of Leeds
General Infirmary in memory of their daughter, Ida.
An architects' drawing in The Builder, 17 March 1888 shows a
larger and more richly decorated version of the building.

Listing NGR: SE2548438887

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547172

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