Westcotes Maternity Hospital Including the Lodge and Stables to the South East is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Hospital, lodge, stables. 1 related planning application.

Westcotes Maternity Hospital Including the Lodge and Stables to the South East

WRENN ID
plain-baluster-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leicester
Constituency
Leicester West MP: Liz Kendall (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1975
Type
Hospital, lodge, stables
OS grid reference
SK 572 038
Coordinates
52.62947, -1.155
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Westcotes Maternity Hospital, along with the associated Lodge and Stables to the southeast, dates to approximately 1888 and was designed by the architect Teulon. The hospital is constructed of purple brick with blue brick banding, featuring stone dressings and slate roofs. It is built in a Gothic style with an irregular plan and elevations. The main east elevation, which overlooks a terrace, is dominated by a large, two-storey splayed bay with stone mullion and transom windows featuring four-centred arch lights. This bay is topped with a pyramidal roof. A central gothic window with tracery is set within a gable, which includes a ball finial and a corbelled chimney to one side. Beneath it is a three-light four-centred arch window and a four-centred arch doorway. To the left is a gable with a chimney stack rising through it. The long north elevation is also irregular. On the west side is a three-storey kitchen wing with a bellcote surmounted by a bell-shaped dome and an ornate wind vane.

The contemporary Lodge, also by Teulon, is built of purple brick with blue brick banding and has stone mullion windows and a slate roof with gable ends. It has a two-storey, L-shaped plan, and includes a stone single-storey splayed bay facing the road. The stables, also contemporary, are of purple brick with blue brick banding, a slate roof with gabled ends, and are one storey high with an attic. The right side features a four-centred stone arch carriage entrance with a stone left doorway in a gable, topped with an ornate weathervane. To the left of the carriage entrance are modern garage doors.

Local climate

Westcotes Maternity Hospital Including the Lodge and Stables to the South East receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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  • 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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