Dormer Parkhursts Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Hartlepool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1985. A C18 Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
Dormer Parkhursts Hospital
- WRENN ID
- seventh-basalt-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hartlepool
- Constituency
- Hartlepool MP: Mr Jonathan Brash (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1985
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Dormer Parkhursts Hospital, Front Street, Greatham, TS25 2HT
- OS grid reference
- NZ 491 276
- Coordinates
- 54.64165, -1.23929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dormer Parkhurst's Hospital is a Grade II listed building originally built as almshouses in 1761, as noted on an inscribed plaque. The structure is made of brick and features a mid-20th century concrete tiled hipped roof with three ridge stacks. It is a single-storey building with projecting wings on both the left and right sides. The front has a symmetrical arrangement of four mid-20th century doors and four mid-20th century casement windows. The windows in the wings are set in their original openings, while those in the center have been enlarged with brick voussoirs extended over them. There is a blocked doorway on the inner face of each side wing. The plaque indicates that the hospital was founded for six widows or unmarried women over the age of fifty by Dormer Parkhurst Esq., Master of Greatham Hospital, in the year 1761.
Local climate
Dormer Parkhursts Hospital receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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