Description

SE41SW
5/74
6.6.1952

SOUTH HIENDLEY
ROBIN LANE
(north side)
Master's Lodge at Holgate's Hospital
(formerly listed by inclusion, under "Archbishop Holgate's Hospital with Chapel,
Porter's Lodge and Master's House").

GV
II

Master's lodge to almshouses known as Holgate's Hospital. c1860; altered.
Brick with sandstone dressings, tiled roof. Long rectangular plan with rear
service wing. Some Tudor-revival and Gothic features, but mostly of plain
utilitarian design. Two storeys plus attics, 6 x 2 bays; raised sill bands
to both floors; south front has gabled 1st bay (built as crosswing), gabled
2-storey 3rd bay, and gabled attic dormer to 5th bay; entrance in 2nd bay,
protected by porch of 3 stilted arches on short columns with crocketed
capitals, the centre archway higher and recessed, with hoodmould run out as a
band; crow-stepped parapet rising to steeply-pitched gable over the centre,
with stepped apex. To left of porch, gabled 1st bay has extruded chimney
stack and one window at ground floor to left of this; to right of porch, 2-
storey bay has large tripartite window at ground floor, a dripband above
this, a large square window at 1st floor, steeply-pitched gable with stone
coping and kneelers; elsewhere, vertical-rectangular windows of one or two
lights, and small arched attic window to 4th bay; all windows have altered
glazing. Steeply-pitched roof with fish-scale bands, chimney at left gable
and on the ridge, both with raised bands and cornices. Two-bay left return
wall has two 2-storey bays, that on the left rectangular with a steeply-
pitched gable, and that on the right canted, with steeply-pitched hipped
roof; 2 bands at 1st floor, and saw-toothed eaves band; glazing altered
except at ground floor of left bay, which has coupled 4-pane sashes.
Interior: not inspected, but said to have features of interest, such as
Tudor-style staircase. History: see Holgate's Hospital; south range (above).
Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SE4104212556

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26521424

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)