Description

REDCAR KIRKLEATHAM
NZ 52 SE
4/64 Entrance screen, loggias,
forts, flat and outhouses
to Sir William Turner's
Hospital
G.V. I

Entrance gates and screen on dwarf wall, c.175O, probably by James Gibbs,
renewed 1964 by W. Dawson (Kirkbymoorside). Loggias, forts, flat and
outhouses, late C18, possibly by John Carr. Wrought iron gates and screen;
brick wall with sandstone plinth and limestone copings. Sandstone ashlar
loggias and forts; brick with stone dressings to flat, outbuildings and
returns in courtyard. Lead and bitumen-felt roofs. Stone-paved walkways.
Central 2-leaf gates have scrolled double lockrail and segmental overthrow,
with foliate and scrolled cresting flanking central coat-of-arms, and
elevated lion passant crest. Side panels and flanking screens, on dwarf
walls with moulded copings, have similar crestings. Screens flanked by
short one-storey, 3-bay, and lower 2-bay quadrant-plan loggias, linking
courtyard to terminal mock forts. Inner loggias each have tripartite round
arcade with chamfered rusticated piers on plain bases, moulded imposts and
archivolts. Flanking slender towers with plinths and cornices, embattled
parapets, and blind quatrefoils in panels on returns. Outer loggias have
chamfered-rusticated elliptical arcades, with plain square bases, imposts
and keystones, moulded cornices and low straight parapets. Forts: 3 x 3
bays, with moulded plinth. Slightly convex middle bays have mock cannon
barrels projecting from segment-headed panels under hoodmoulds. End bays
have slightly-projecting tapered towers with cross-arrowloops. Continuous
pointed-arcaded cornices under embattled parapets Flat roof on west fort;
east fort roofless. West return of flat at rear of west loggia, has 2 sash
windows with glazing bars, and embattled parapet. Returns in courtyard have
paired 6-panel doors with keystones and gauged brick flat arches. Interiors
of loggias have coved stucco ceilings and rear walls.

Listing NGR: NZ5927421598

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17529401

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990