Description

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SO 85 SW
3/86

POWICK CP
Harrison Close
Barrington Grange
Former Administration Block Powick Hospital

(Formerly listed as Administration Block Powick Hospital, POWICK CP)

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Offices. 1852. Brick with limestone dressings and slate roof. Italianate style. A symmetrical composition of four storeys and three bays with chamfered quoins and bracketed cornice. Windows have architraves. Those on the ground floor are sashed with glazing bars and have cornices. Those on the first floor have eight-pane sashes, pediments, and a sill band. Second and third floor windows are sashed, with sill band to those on the second floor. Doorcase has engaged Tuscan columns and triglyph frieze, framing a doorway with round head, moulded imposts, and keystone. Chimney, in middle of hipped roof, has stone cap with quoined base below panels with arched recesses, and a cornice. Return walls treated in a manner similar to main facade. In 1879 Edward Elgar became Conductor of the staff band of the County Lunatic Asylum, which later became Powick Hospital.

Listing NGR: SO8203050620

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26460412

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)