Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
16179
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/04/1994
Date of Amendment
20/07/2000
Name of Property
Erddig Ward at the North Wales Hospital
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Denbigh
Town
Locality
North Wales Hospital
Easting
304865
Northing
365084
Street Side
W
Location
On an elevated site to the W of the main hospital complex, a short distance to the NW of the chapel.
Description
Broad Class
Health and Welfare
Period
History
Built in 1931 as the first of six projected villas, each designed to accommodate 50 patients; by Lockwood, Abercrombie and Saxon, architects.
Exterior
Two-storey Neo-Georgian villa of asymmetrical U-plan; rendered brick construction with hipped, greenish slate roof and rendered chimneys. The main (S) front is symmetrical and has a 6-window main section with advanced, single-window flanking wings with hipped roofs. Central cartouche with the date 1931. Shallow arched niches to the ground floor with long windows; 12-pane sashes to first floor. The outer bays have canted bay windows to the ground floor and tripartite sashes to the upper floor.
The rear wings are of 5 and 4 bays to the E and L respectively; 3 windows to each end with large rectangular chimney in the angle of the E wing with the main block. The W wing has a single-storey extension occupying the site of an enclosed yard with curved screen walls; those to the E have been demolished.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a particularly good example of Neo-Georgian hospital architecture retaining original detail virtually intact; part of a group of buildings of this date at the hospital.
Group value with other listed items at North Wales Hospital.
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