St Thomas Hospital (Original Building with the Rear Wing in the Courtyard) is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1975. Hospital. 6 related planning applications.

St Thomas Hospital (Original Building with the Rear Wing in the Courtyard)

WRENN ID
inner-courtyard-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stockport
Constituency
Stockport MP: Navendu Mishra (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1975
Type
Hospital
Address
St Thomas Hospital (Original Building with the Rear Wing in the Courtyard), Shaw Heath, SK3 8BL
OS grid reference
SJ 894 894
Coordinates
53.40185, -2.16037
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Thomas Hospital, originally built as a workhouse in 1841 by Bowman, is a two-storey brick building that has been rendered, featuring rusticated quoins and a Welsh slate roof. The building has a string cornice, with projecting ends that each contain one hung sash window with glazing bars above a double door with four panels, which is topped by a rectangular fanlight with four panels. The doorway is flanked by plain pilasters and has a flat hood supported on consoles. The central section has a 1-3-1 window arrangement, with hung sash windows that have glazing bars; the outer windows are narrower. A chamfered stone band separates the storeys. The ground floor has two windows without glazing bars flanking a modern door beneath a rectangular fanlight, which is accompanied by narrow flanking lights and a shallow pediment on long consoles, accessed by three steps, and sits on a plinth.

The rear wing, located in the courtyard, is four and three storeys high, constructed of red brick and topped with a Welsh slate roof. It features end pavilions with three windows, linked by three-storey sections with six windows (some of which are blocked), leading to a four-storey block with three windows, followed by a one-window section that is three storeys high, culminating in a canted centre block with a 1-3-1 window arrangement. This centre block is topped with a clock and campanile, which has paired pilasters and a lead cupola.

Local climate

St Thomas Hospital (Original Building with the Rear Wing in the Courtyard) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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