Building record MYO1797 - LODGE AT BOOTHAM PARK HOSPITAL

Summary

The lodge at Bootham Park Hospital was built in 1857 from yellow brick with stone dressings. It has a slate roof and was built to a T-plan.

Location

Grid reference SE 5990 5245 (point)
Map sheet SE55SE
Civil Parish York, City of York, North Yorkshire

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Type and Period (3)

Full Description

Lodge. 1857. Yellow brick with stone dressings. Slate roof. T-plan. EXTERIOR: one storey plus attic. The north-west front, facing the drive, has a crosswing gable at the right. This has chamfered quoins and a 1-storey bay window of brick with stone dressings. 3 sashes without glazing bars face forwards and have segmental heads, and each side has one similar window. The roof of the bay window is slated with bracketed eaves. The attic window above is sashed with a stone surround which has the jambs continued upwards as a round arch with carved tympanum. The roof verges project and have plain bargeboards and a central finial. The main range is of one bay and has a ground-floor window which is sashed with a tripartite stone surround. Above the central light there is a semicircular arch with carved tympanum. The attic is lit by a flat-roofed dormer. At the right, in the angle with the cross-wing, is a porch. The outer doorway has a round arch with keystone. Above there is a shaped tablet inscribed '1857 CA'. The south-west wall of the cross-wing, facing Bootham, has 2 tripartite windows similar to that to the main range, with linked lintels and a sill band. Between them and below the eaves there is a recess containing shield of arms of the City of York. Chimney on ridge of cross-wing, with clustered shafts. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SE5990452457

Derived from English Heritage LB download dated: 22/08/2005

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This is a listed building and information used to create this record has been taken from the National Heritage List for England - for a full description of the site please go to this source.

1 World Wide Web page English Heritage. (2011). Lodge at Bootham Park Hospital: List Entry <http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1259404> [accessed 18-AUG-2011]

Related NMR Event: NO 1050602 RCHME Hospitals Project 1991-1995

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Record last edited

May 1 2020 9:03AM

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