Building record 1160/88/1 - Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital

House, now hospital. Two-storey house in Jacobean style, 1899-1902 by Charles Dorman for James Manfield, Northampton shoe manufacturer. Originally named Weston Favell House, it became the Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital in 1925. Dressed ironstone with Rutland stone dressings.

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 stone cross mullion 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 Tuscan columns. Service 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.
{3} The main building survives remarkably well intact, despite its ude for hospital administration over 70 years. Many of the original Jacobean interiors survive including staircase, panelling, plasterwork, ceiling details, doors and doorcases, large inglenook fireplaces and domestic scale fireplaces in upper floors. The grounds of the house to the north and west have been utilised by the hospital, but remain unaltered to the south.

{7} In 1924 James Manfield, shoe manufacturer, gifted his mansion to become a hospital for crippled children. It opened in 1925 and soon started to admit adults as well. Manfield closed in 1992 when all the orthopaedic services were moved to the general hospital.

{8} One photo dated 1990, one dated 1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 14/1000 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H14 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN1000.

<3> Ballinger J., 2001, Manfield Hospital, Kettering Road, Northampton, (unchecked) (Notes). SNN101340.

<4> Ballinger J., 2001, Manfield Hospital, Kettering Road, Northampton, (unchecked) (Photographic prints (COL)). SNN101341.

<5> Barton Willmore Architects, 2005, Manfield House, Technical Recording Report, (unchecked) (Report). SNN105625.

<6> Barton Willmore Architects, 2005, Manfield House, Appendices, (unchecked) (Report). SNN105626.

<7> NHS, 2016, Northamptonshire: Other County Hospitals and Homes, checked (Website). SNN110495.

<8> Photographs of buildings in Northampton (Photographs). SNN114989.

<9> Historic England, Undated, MANFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, NORTHAMPTON, BF100922 (Archive). SNN115561.

Record last edited

Oct 30 2023 12:12PM