Wycombe General Hospital, Queen Alexandra Road
Location/Address
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Type
Other site, structure or landscape
Assets that cannot fit any of the other categories. This category includes sites of archaeological interest, where the original form and function may not be apparent without the use of archaeological techniques and interpretation.Description
Wycombe General Hospital built 1961-6, on site of High Wycombe War Memorial Hospital built in 1923.
Wycombe General Hospital (formerly High Wycombe and District War Memorial Hospital)(B1-2).
High Wycombe War Memorial Hospital was built on land on Marlow Hill given by the Marquis of Lincolnshire and opened in 1923 with provision for 35 patients (B3-4).
Extended in 1930s with capacity for 55 patients (B5).
Current hospital built 1961-6 (B4).
Designed by Powell and Moya (B6).
Wycombe General Hospital by Powell & Moya, with consultants Llewelyn-Davies & Weeks, 1961-6. Carefully tailored to a very restricted site on a steep slope. A sophisticated, mostly glass six-storey tower of wards, the first example of the American race-track plan with wards opening off a continuous circuit of corridor. The concrete framework of cantilevered floors and columns is strongly expressed, and set-off against glass walling with recessed windows sheilded by glass balconies and 'brises-soleil'. It sits above a low podium that spreads, rather messily, to the margins of the site, and in front forms a terrace - Llewelyn-Davies's 'machbox on a muffin' type. Nurses' hostel, 1961-3 (B7).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
Wycombe General Hospital built 1961-6, on site of High Wycombe War Memorial Hospital built in 1923.
Date Listed
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