Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11305
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/08/1986
Date of Amendment
29/09/1986
Name of Property
The Old Workhouse, Bridgend General Hospital
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Bridgend
Town
Bridgend
Locality
Easting
290470
Northing
180259
Street Side
Location
Beside the road close to Ogmore River, the entrance range at right angles facing S across a formal garden.
Description
Broad Class
Health and Welfare
Period
History
Commissioned by the Bridgend & Cowbridge Union, October 1836, completed Autumn 1838. Designed by George Wilkinson, architect of Witney (Oxfordshire). Cost £4,100. Originally to house 200 persons.
Exterior
Plan form of 3 parallel ranges linked by a spinal range running from rear of S range. 2-storeys, 7-3-5 windows with advanced centre. Blue lias facings, sandstone dressings, slate roofs. Cusped bargeboards with finials to gables over 1st floor windows, 3 steep gables with parapets, kneelers and inscribed cartouche to centre. Plain band courses between storeys, low plinth. Voussoir lintels, 2-light windows with small casements on upper floor, modern frames to ground floor. Pair of stone doorcases to centre with drip stones. Gothic arches and flush-panelled doors.
Single-storey hipped roof extensions over arched entrance at road end.
Modern buildings to right end with 1-storey flat roof extension to S are not of special interest. Western rubble walled 2-storey courtyard survives radiating from 3-storey octagon with splayed ornately gabled angles. Canted single-storey rubble range overlooking road, raised by one storey to S end beside side access to walled courtyard.
Interior
Reason for designation
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