The Spital is a Grade I listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
The Spital
- WRENN ID
- blind-mantel-grove
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Spital, Spital Lane, Hexham, NE46 3RZ
- OS grid reference
- NY 927 650
- Coordinates
- 54.97973, -2.1153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Spital is a building from 1802, located on the site of the medieval St Giles' Hospital. It has two storeys and a basement, featuring three windows. The exterior is made of ashlar stone above a rusticated basement, topped with a hipped slate roof. The front is designed in a classical style, with a pedimented centre that projects forward and is accessed by curved flights of steps leading to a central doorway. This doorway has a large and elaborate fanlight, two leaf doors with sidelights separated by Doric columns, a fluted frieze, and panelled pilasters. The ground floor has glazing bar sash windows with architraves, entablatures with fluted friezes, and relieving arches. The building is finished with a cornice and blocking course, and the pediment features a stone urn and swags in low relief.
To the west, there is a lower two-storey annexe with two windows, as well as a hipped gabled extension that includes a lunette on the first floor and a Venetian window on the ground floor. There is also a further single-storey range with two windows. The north front has tripartite windows on a raised ground floor, set in relieving arches that contain rosettes, along with string and eaves courses. The extensions to the west are treated similarly to the main front, featuring a lunette and a Venetian window. The basement windows are segmental hooded within relieving lunettes.
Inside, there is a two-storey hall with a cantilevered staircase and landing, heavy Adam-style ceiling decoration, and some mahogany doors. An Anglian cross, previously mentioned in a list, is now located in St Andrew's Church.
Local climate
The Spital receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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