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Listed Building: ST JOHNS HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL (1316500)

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Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 831-1, 4, 170
Date assigned 13 March 1951
Date last amended

Description

BAKEWELL SK2168 SOUTH CHURCH STREET 831-1/4/170 (North side) 13/03/51 St John's Hospital and attached front wall GV II 6 almshouses and attached front wall. Central plaque reads 'The Hospital of St John Founded 1602' but built 1709, restored C20. Coursed limestone with ashlar sandstone dressings, stone slate roof. EXTERIOR: one storey and attic, 6-window range. Symmetrical composition of 3 pairs, each with pedimented gable over windows in rhythm 2:2:2. Chamfered plinth; large quoins; chamfered, quoined door surrounds with deep lintels and reproduction studded Gothic panelled doors. Chamfered 2-light mullioned windows with iron casements and diamond-pane leaded lights. The doorways are paired beneath centre of each gable and are flanked by windows under a continuous dripmould. Ashlar stack on ridge behind each gable. Pedimented gable on left return; right end adjoins The Old Town Hall, King Street (qv). The right end almshouse door has no number the remainder are Nos 1-5 (consec) numbered from the right. INTERIOR: not inspected. Attached front wall with chamfered copings and round-headed gatepiers at central opening. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire: Harmondsworth: 1986-: 75). Listing NGR: SK2166268434

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Grid reference SK 21662 68434 (point)
Map sheet SK26NW
Civil Parish BAKEWELL, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE

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Nov 8 2007 3:08PM

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