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© Mr Ken Bourne
IoE Number:
468208
Location:
ST JOHNS HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL, SOUTH CHURCH STREET (north side)
BAKEWELL, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Ken Bourne
Date Photographed:
17 September 2003
Date listed:
13 March 1951
Date of last amendment:
13 March 1951
Grade
II
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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).