Listed Building: Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital (14/1000)

House, now hospital. 1899-1902 by Charles Dorman for James Manfield, Northampton shoe manufacturer; became hospital in circa 1923. Dressed ironstone with Rutland stone dressings. Stone tile roof with moulded coping stones to shaped gables. Stacks with group of Portland stone shafts with cornices. PLAN: Main block containing entrance hall and stairhall with cross-wing to right and long service wing to left. Free Jacobean style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Long 3:2:4:1:1:1 bay NW front with sto . on transom windows with leaded panes. Principal feature to main range to right is elaborate ashlar 2 storey porch with pilasters flanking arched doorway with pinnacles and strapwork above, 3-light first floor window with Tuscan colonnade with broken entablature and shaped gable with pediment and arms; 4 pedimented dormers; large stone mullion stairhall window and shaped gabled crossing to right with integral stack and square 2-storey bay with small corner windows with squat Tusca . ce wing on left has pair of gables. SE garden front has cross-wings to left and right with shaped gables and 2-storey bowed bay windows and service wing set back on right. INTERIOR: Good interior includes many elaborate features including panelling, plasterwork, screens, doors and doorcases with overdoors, chimneypieces, a large inglenook and staircase with arcaded screen and balustrade and stained glass stair window all in Jacobean style.

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Jun 11 2021 12:38PM