Description

ADCROFT STREET
1.
5411
(North-West Side)
Centre Block of
The Trowbridge and
District Hospital
ST 8558 4/131
II GV

2.
Circa 1857 in similar style to the Adcroft Street terraces. A 2 storey and basement
surburban house closing the vista up Adcroft Street. Ashlar, 5 bays, centre 3
break forward. Right hand bay has 4 storey tower. Shallow pitched hipped slate
roofs. Plinth, draughted ground floor, 1st floor cill band, overhanging eaves
with moulded cast iron gutter. Later casement windows, shallow pediments over
ground floor windows. Left hand 1st floor window blind. All window ranges contained
in slight breaks, except centre which is slightly recessed with projecting tripartite
porch with piers to cornice; tall side lights to glazed doors. The tower has band
over 1st floor, cill band to 3 grouped round headed windows on 3rd floor with cornice
below and belvedere balcony to rear.

Nos 1 to 13 (consec), the centre block of the District Hospital and Nos 16 to 29
(consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: ST8549358508

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26477681

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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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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  For the Record
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover