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PRN | 8127 | ||||
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Site or location name | Walden House | ||||
Summary | |||||
Description | Grade II* listing shows 'Late C17. 2 storeys with dormers, red brick, stone dressings, Ionic pilasters at either end of front. 5 windows with carved architraves, with swags on aprons below those end floor. Sshes, no glazing bars, modillioned cornice. Later door, probably early C19, 6-panel, plain pilastered surround, with dentil cornice. Elaborate C18 fanlight. Hipped tile roof with 3 flat-topped dormers, big brick stack with keyed recessed niches. (RCHM 13).' The Huntingdon Great War Trail gives 'The former home of Henry Geldart JP, Walden House became a Red Cross Hospital in December 1914 when Brunswick Villas proved to be too small. It had to be extended with the addition of temporary buildings. By 1917 it could accommodate eighty five patients. Almost all the staff were volunteers. By the time it closed in January 1919, the hospital had treated 3,900 in-patients as well as numerous out-patients – up to 50 on one day at its peak.' The building has been converted to apartments. | ||||
Monument Type | AUXILIARY HOSPITAL;HOSPITAL;AUXILIARY HOSPITAL | ||||
Desgination | None | ||||
Material | BRICK | ||||
Location |
Country | ENGLAND | ||||
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Site Location | Top of Market Hill, beside All Saints Church. Rear of building access off George Street. | ||||
Postcode | PE29 3NR | ||||
Map Reference | NGR: TL2377171825 (523771, 271825) | ||||
Condition/Threat | |||||
Condition (Date) | Good (03-07-2016) | ||||
Source | |||||
Cambridgeshire County Council (2014) Huntingdon Great War History Trail - 11 Walden House. Cambridgeshire County Council. Cambridge. https://great-war.ccan.co.uk/content/catalogue_item/huntingdons-great-war-history-trail | |||||
Administration | |||||
Recorded By (Date) | John M - Geograph (26-06-2016) | ||||
Copiled On | 03-07-2016 | ||||
Last Updated | 03-07-2016 |
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Cambridgeshire County Council (2014) Huntingdon Great War History Trail. Cambridgeshire County Council: Cambridge. | 5 Mb | ||
Walden House (Market Square, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire) became a Red Cross Hospital in December 1914 and extended with the addition of temporary buildings. It closed in January 1919. Front elevation - Market Hill. (File name: 8127_657.jpg) |
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Walden House (Market Square, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire) became a Red Cross Hospital in December 1914 and extended with the addition of temporary buildings. It closed in January 1919. Rear view. (File name: 8127_658.jpg) |
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