Listed building or place reference: HE1003 Historic site reference Property General Hospital (1860) Road name Gloucester Street Parish St. Helier LocationView on map Grade Listed Building Grade 1 Category Health / welfare building Statement of significance An important example of a substantial mid 19th century general hospital typical of the period, retaining most historic features, with outstanding masonry work. The entrance lodge is an unusual building of high quality, retaining fine features in a muscular hybrid classical/neo-Norman style. Together a fine ensemble. Context Contrasts with all the other buildings in the street. External Description A dignified principal front to Gloucester St.: 3 storey, semi-basement; 2:6:3:6:2 bays, outer pair of bays and central 3 bays projecting. Roof behind granite parapet and moulded granite cornice. Front/south elevation: small granite rock-faced blocks above massive dressed blocks to semi-basement; dressed granite surrounds to openings and quoins: long and shortwork blocks in Gibbsian style; blockwork string courses linking tops of keystones to each storey. Central bay pedimented with a clock; central round-arched doorway at piano nobile level up granite steps, recessed, double timber doors, each 3 panel, fanlight, large keystone holding armourial shield with 3 lions; inscription over portico: 'Hopital General, Fonde 1765, Reconstruit 1860'. Arched windows, imposts at 1st floor linked by moulded string course. Rear/north elevation: 3 storey, 1:3:5:1:5:3:1 bays; granite block string course to parapet. Coursed granite rubble, openings dressed with granite blocks in long and short work, also as quoins to projecting bays 2 and 18. Small doorway to bay 4 from east. Round-arched windows, some timber sashes 8 pane (4/4), no horns, most pvc; 2 Venetian stair windows to centre bay at 1st & 2nd floor levels with tripartite doorway at ground floor, elongated round-arched windows to end bays and lighting stairs in bays 4 & 15 from east. Apparent extension, in similar style, to northeast corner of building. On the roadside is an Entrance Lodge, which originally fronted formal gardens providing a setting to the main hospital building. The lodge is single storey, 1:3:1. Pitched slate roofs, granite copings and chimneys to either end of central block. Front/south elevation: to central block coursed small rock-faced grey granite, larger dressed pink granite blocks as quoins in long and short work; to wings blank uncoursed orange granite rubble curving down to outer corners as screen, part of former high boundary wall flanked by gateways, now reduced to low wall. Central full height entrance arch, timber 6 panel pair of doors, carved as a piece as a single arch with Italianate arches in relief; subsidiary arches, timber door to each in similar but simpler style as entrance arch; all 3 arches topped by rather surprising billet mouldings with projecting keystone in neo-Norman style; machiolation with quatrefoil motif below stepped parapet of 3 narrow granite courses. Rear/west elevation: similar materials as central front block across elevation including lower recessed wings, rusticated voussoirs to central full height arch and flanking louvred subsidiary openings; timber sashes to wings: round-arched, 4 pane (2/2), horns. Side/north and south elevations: central doorways to wings, rusticated voussoirs, each a timber plank door, that to south has round quatripartite glazed panel to top of door. Granite freestanding bellcote and bell to south. Low granite rubble boundary wall to street. Internal Description Principal features of historic interior and layout survive. Central entrance hall with pilasters and coffered ceiling, leading through to principal granite staircase, which rises either side of original lift shaft (now enclosed). A spine corridor runs the length of the building, with internal masonry walls rising to attic level. There is brick vaulting to each floor level. At either end of the building is a secondary staircase (originally for the seperate male and female wings of the hospital) with granite steps to basement level, and metal steps to the upper floors; continuous handrail and solid balustrade with arcaded design. High quality interior masonry work particularly evident in the stair halls, including tripartite archways. Granite steps lead down to a semi-basement level, with store rooms off to front side of the building. Attic level retains original 1860s clock mechanism; principal roof trusses with metal strapping. Roof re-slated in 1990s. 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