Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
13416
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
24/06/1986  
Date of Amendment
30/03/1995  
Name of Property
Springbank Nursing Home  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan  
Community
Barry  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
311070  
Northing
168337  
Street Side
 
Location
West block of a wide symmetrical composition on a spacious elevated site to N of town centre. Site bounded by Buttrills, Barry, and College Roads; terraced grounds to S.  

Description


Broad Class
Education  
Period
 

History
1913-14. Designed by Teather and Wilson, architects of Cardiff as residential block of Women's training College.  

Exterior
Queen Anne style. Three storey red brick and bathstone block with outer wings, panelled brick pilasters. Hipped slate roofs, bracket eaves, brick stacks with stone cornices, reeding and volutes to window architraves. Seven-bay central block has lunette dormer and central splayed bay paired oculi to outer ends of top floor. Tuscan colonnade to ground floor centre, entablature linked to advanced outer bays with arched and keyblocked architraves to tripartite windows; small-pane sash windows. Double doors with side and fanlights on raised terrace. Advanced outer wings in similar style; central lunette dormers; 3 bays with panelled brick pilasters, oculi to top floor ends. Twelve window returns to each end.  

Interior
Retains entrance hall with square piers and good rear open well stair with iron handrail and timber treads.  

Reason for designation
Included as fine example of early C20 educational architecture. Group value.  

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