Description

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NZ 3041
12/83

SHINCLIFFE
A 181 (East side, off)
Sherburn Hospital
Beddell House

(Formerly listed as Sherburn Hospital Elderly Persons' Home (Beddell House), 20 metres north-west of Chapel)

GV
II
Former Infirmary, now Elderly Persons' Home, c.1868 by Austin and Johnson. Snecked sandstone with dressings. Welsh slate roofs and stone chimney stacks. H-plan on site sloping down from right to left. Gothic style.

Long symmetrical front, two and three storeys with attics: projecting centrepiece with two-storey square porch flanked by taller cross-gabled wings. Behind this runs a continuous range with five-bay sections flanking the centre-piece; the left section is raised above a four-bay buttressed loggia of pointed arches. Large cross-gabled end wings projecting to front and rear complete the composition; the left wing is three-storeyed due to slope of site, the right wing has a slightly taller eight-bay extension on rear. Mainly pointed openings with sill bands. Centrepiece has a buttressed porch with pointed doorway and shouldered and trefoil-headed lancets in pairs or groups of four. Ground-floor windows elsewhere are mainly two-light with quatrefoils and continuous hoodmoulds. Mainly paired trefoil-headed lancets on first floor. Long centre range has small gabled dormers. Angle-buttressed end wings have similar fenestration and wide gabled bays which break forward on inner and outer returns and end in tall battered stacks. Wing at left has large four-light window in gable and three-storey square-plan porch on left return. Steeply-pitched roofs with coped gables and transverse ridge stacks. Rear has plainer, scattered openings, mainly with shouldered heads. Single-storey, late C19 flat-roofed wing at right-angles on inner return of extension on right wing.

C20 one-storey, brick garage on rear is not of interest.

Listing NGR: NZ3082341634

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26413960

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)