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Latitude: 53.9153 / 53°54'55"N
Longitude: -1.6987 / 1°41'55"W
OS Eastings: 419890
OS Northings: 446616
OS Grid: SE198466
Mapcode National: GBR JRL5.16
Mapcode Global: WHC8Q.WV9B
Plus Code: 9C5WW882+4G
Entry Name: Former Infirmary Block and Retaining Wall and Steps at Wharfedale General Hospital
Listing Date: 15 November 2000
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1268415
English Heritage Legacy ID: 486873
ID on this website: 101268415
Location: Newall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS21
County: Leeds
Civil Parish: Otley
Built-Up Area: Otley
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Otley All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Hospital building
SE 14 NE
805/7/10009
15-NOV-00
OTLEY
NEWALL CARR ROAD
(West,off)
Former Infirmary Block and Retaining Wall and Steps at Wharfedale General Hospital
II
Infirmary block at Wharfedale Union Workhouse. 1871-73, by CS and AJ Nelson for Wharfedale Poor Law Union. Later C19 and C20 alterations. Converted to offices late C20. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and hipped Welsh slate roofs with prominent coped ridge stacks. Plinth and dentillated eaves. 2 storeys; 16 window range. Windows are mainly original glazing bar sashes. Symmetrical frontage has in the centre 2 windows flanked by round arched doorways with panelled doors and fanlights, approached by stone steps. Beyond, on each side, 4 single windows, and in each end bay, paired windows. Above, similar fenestration, with 3 narrower windows in the centre. Left end has a single storey hipped projection with a door, overlight and single window. Behind this, an external stone staircase, L-plan, with a renewed balustrade, to a first floor door flanked by a single window. Right end has a similar projection, with a monopitch roof, and a straight staircase to a C20 door. At the rear, sanitary annexes, 2 storeys, that to east extended early C20.
INTERIOR: ground floor stairwells have segmental vaults, cornices and brackets. Stone cantilever dogleg staircases with wrought iron stick balusters and octagonal newels. First floor has late C20 partitioning. Original separate rooms in the end bays on each floor.
OUTSIDE:low retaining wall across the front of the building, with a pair of coped square piers in the centre.
Listing NGR: SE1989046616
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