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
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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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