Listed Building: NEWHOLME HOSPITAL (MAIN BUILDING) (1148012)

'SK2169 BASLOW ROAD 831-1/3/16 (East side) 07/01/70 Newholme Hospital (main building) (Formerly Listed as: BASLOW ROAD (East side) Newholme (part of former Bakewell Union, now a hospital)) GV II Former Bakewell Union Workhouse, now hospital administration block and various offices. c1841 with later additions and alterations. Coursed limestone with punched sandstone dressings; graduated slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2-storey symmetrical front of 1:2:1:2:1 bays, the single bays project and are gabled; single-storey, single-bay side wings. 2-storey rear wings return twice to partially enclose yards set back to each side of main facade. Jacobean style. Chamfered plinth; large quoins. Chamfered mullioned windows, with transoms to ground floor, and with rectangular-pane iron casements with small lozenges. Central 6-panel door in Tudor-arched surround with hoodmould which steps over a blank shield; transomed sidelights. 2-light window with dripstone to first floor; gable clock. Recessed bays have 3-light and 2-light windows. Gabled outer bays with 2-storey canted bay windows of 1:3:1 lights under ashlar hipped roofs; gable slits. Beyond left gable is a diamond-pane iron casement with centre-pivot opener. Front and end gables have shaped kneelers and quoined upstands to ashlar gable copings. Ashlar end stacks and 2 ridge stacks. Differing single-storey side wings: that on left with 4-light window; on right with 3-light window and doorway; flat roofs. Rear wings have various additions and alterations. Broad Tudor-arched openings onto the yards are infilled by plinth walls to casements. Centrepiece of an impressive range of workhouse buildings of the period. INTERIOR: not inspected. Listing NGR: SK2197269126.'