Guisborough General Hospital (West Block) and Adjoining Wing is a Grade II listed building in the Redcar and Cleveland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1984. Former hospital. 4 related planning applications.
Guisborough General Hospital (West Block) and Adjoining Wing
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Constituency
- Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP: Luke Myer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1984
- Type
- Former hospital
- Address
- Guisborough General Hospital (West Block) and Adjoining Wing, TS14 6HZ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 613 163
- Coordinates
- 54.53855, -1.05327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Guisborough General Hospital, specifically the west block and the adjoining wing, was originally built as a Union Workhouse in 1839 by J.B. and W. Atkinson from York. The building is constructed from chevron dressed sandstone with tooled margins and features a hipped Welsh slate roof with two stacks. It stands two storeys high and exhibits a plain late classical style. The structure has seven bays, with the end bays projecting slightly forward. The corners are accentuated with painted rusticated and vermiculated quoins.
The ground floor windows are slightly recessed and have moulded stone sills and lintels, except for the end bays, which feature shouldered architraves that extend to the ground. The first-floor sills and lintels continue as string courses. The windows are early 20th-century casements. A central doorway is adorned with a moulded stone architrave and consoles that support a cornice hood, featuring a mid-20th-century door and a rectangular fanlight above.
The listing also includes the lower, adjoining south wing, which projects forward from the main building and was constructed in the mid-19th century using the same materials. This wing has a gable end that faces Northgate and is also two storeys tall, featuring a first-floor semi-circular window at the top of a round-headed recessed panel. The additions to the rear and further south are not of interest.
Local climate
Guisborough General Hospital (West Block) and Adjoining Wing receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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