Description

SE 1338 SE SHIPLEY VICTORIA ROAD
(east side)
Saltaire

9/144 Sir Titus Salt's
Hospital including
wall and piers to
Saltaire Road

GV II

Hospital, now old people's home. Dated 1868. By Lockwood and
Mawson for Titus Salt. Pitch-faced stone with ashlar dressings.
Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys. Italianate-style ordered but asymmetrical
facade of 11 bays. Several bays break forward and are gabled.
Windows are round-arched and single light, or paired with central
colonnette and some have decorative friezes. Larger windows have
cambered heads. All have pointed hoodmould. The doorway to left,
with C20 door, has fanlight with glazed words ' SIR TITUS SALT's
HOSPITAL /1868 ' and carved above ' OPENED SEPT /1868 '. To the
right is an open porch with central colonnette infilled with C20
glazing, with inner glazing reading ' PRIVATE ENTRANCE ' and
' SIR TITUS SALT'S HOSPITAL '. Band between floors. Bracketed
eaves. Modillioned gables, the tympanum of one being richly carved
with foliage with central roundel. Tall stacks with modillioned
cornices.

The left facade, on Saltaire Road, is symmetrical with the gabled
centre bay breaking forward, its tympanum enriched with foliage and
the Salt coat of arms. Central 3-light canted bay window to ground
floor; central 2nd-floor triple group window with a panel below with
raised letters ' SIR TITUS SALT's HOSPITAL '. Flanking windows are
paired with round-arched lights and central colonnettes. Bracketed
eaves and modillioned gable. The rear elevation is plainer, but the
right end, nearest Saltaire Road is treated as the main facades.

Attached to the left facade is a dwarf wall with square ashlar piers
with decorative pyramidal caps.

Part of Saltaire model village.

Listing NGR: SE1391237754

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496264

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)