Description

NZ6116
7/139

GUISBOROUGH
NORTHGATE
(east side)

Guisborough
General Hospital
(W.block) and
adjoining wing.

II

Former Union Workhouse. 1839, by J.B. & W. Atkinson (York).
Chevron dressed sandstone with tooled margins. Hipped Welsh
slate roof; 2 stacks. 2 storeys. Plain late classical. 7 bays
of which ends project slightly forward. Painted rusticated and
vermiculated quoins at angles. Slightly recessed ground floor
windows with moulded stone sills and lintels, except end bays
which have shouldered architraves continued to the ground. First
floor sills and lintels are continued as string courses. Early
C.20 casements. Central. doorway with moulded stone architrave
and consoles supporting cornice hood. Mid C.20 door, rectangular
fanlight. Listing includes lower, adjoining (S) wing which
projects forward of the main building. Mid C.19. Same materials
as hospital. Gable end fronts onto Northgate. 2 storeys. First
floor semi-circular window at head of round-headed recessed
panel. The additions adjoining the rear (E. side), and further
S. are not of interest.

Listing NGR: NZ6135416331

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26453407

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover