Fair Mile Hospital
FAIR MILE HOSPITAL, READING ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059291
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Fair Mile Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- FAIR MILE HOSPITAL, READING ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059291
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Fair Mile Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIR MILE HOSPITAL, READING ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FAIR MILE HOSPITAL, READING ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cholsey
- National Grid Reference:
- SU5975786005
Details
CHOLSEY READING ROAD
SU58NE
(East side)
2/89
Fair Mile Hospital
GV
II
Lunatic Asylum, now hospital. Dated 1870 to carved panel above main door, by
C.H. Howell, additions by G.T. Hind 1898, some C20 alterations and additions.
Red brick with some stone dressings and grey brick courses and diapering:
complex Welsh slate roof with lead ridges; various red brick stacks. Complex
symmetrical plan. 3-storey, 18-window range with towers. Panelled door to centre
with stone Tudor archway with carved trefoils to spandrels. 5-storey tower to
left with hipped roof. Stone mullion, and mullion and transom windows to centre
block. 4-pane sashes to wings. Interior not inspected.
(Buildings of England: Berkshire, p. 117).
Listing NGR: SU5975786005
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247973
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 117
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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