Western Range to Eastern Courtyard at Babington Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1979. Hospital.
Western Range to Eastern Courtyard at Babington Hospital
- WRENN ID
- kindled-string-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire MP: Jonathan Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1979
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Western Range to Eastern Courtyard at Babington Hospital, Derby Road, Belper
- OS grid reference
- SK 346 469
- Coordinates
- 53.01909, -1.48562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Western Range to the Eastern Courtyard at Babington Hospital is a building dating from around 1838, although it does not appear on the Belper Tithe Map of 1844. It was likely designed between 1845 and 1850 by the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott as a workhouse for the Belper Union. The building is in the Jacobean style, constructed of ashlar with quoins and features a slate roof.
The central section is three storeys high and includes gabled dormers that rise above the eaves, along with a central lantern. On either side of the Tudor arched doorway, which has small flanking windows, are three storeyed canted bays. The windows are primarily latticed iron glazing, except for the main windows on the lower two storeys. The rear elevation features a central gable, while the outer wings are two storeys tall and have three gabled dormers that also break through the eaves, with five windows each below. Some modern glazing has been added.
Local climate
Western Range to Eastern Courtyard at Babington Hospital receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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