Description

ST6834NW
8/119

BRUTON CP
HIGH STREET (South side)
Sexey's Hospital: East Wing and gateway link to West

24.3.61

GV II

Almshouse. Early C19, extended in 1882. Local stone cut and squared with Doulting stone dressings; Welsh slate roof
behind parapets and coped gables; stone chimney stacks with moulded caps. In plain Gothic style; 'U'-plan, mostly 3
storeys; street facade of 2 storeys, 11 bays, of which bay 11 is slightly projecting and gabled. Plinth, eaves course,
plain parapet; hollow chamfered mullioned windows with cusped head single or 2-lights under continuous stepped label;
door set in moulded cambered arch bay 3, 4-light window over lower bays 4 and 5, projecting chimney stack between bays
8 and 9; windows to bay 11 deeper, with individual labels, with 2-light pointed arch blind window and open quatrefoil
panel in gable. Linking doorway to West, on street line, has moulded 4-centre arch under rectangular hood with carved
foliage in spandrils. West facade, to main courtyard, 3 storeys, 7 bays, has mostly 2 cusped head light windows under
separate labels; to second floor 4-centred arched similar 2-light windows without labels; cambered arched doorways to
bays 4 and 6. South garden elevation of 3 storeys (bay 1 is 4 storeys) with 5 bays, all windows flat headed, mostly
2-light under labels but with two stepped 3-lights to bays 4 and 5. A rebuilding of part of the Hospital in the early
C19; in 1882 it was extended Eastwards to accommodate a training school for domestic servants, now absorbed into
almshouse. (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972).

Listing NGR: ST6812234737

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26629738

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)