Louth Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1999. A 19th century Hospital, workhouse.
Louth Hospital
- WRENN ID
- high-parapet-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1999
- Type
- Hospital, workhouse
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Louth Hospital, High Holme Road
- OS grid reference
- TF 325 878
- Coordinates
- 53.37046, -0.0089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Louth Hospital, originally a workhouse, was built between 1837 and 1839 and later expanded. It was designed by George Gilbert Scott for the Louth Poor Law Union. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features Welsh slate hipped roofs. There is an eaves band and an ashlar band at the first floor level.
The central section has a window pavilion with side wings and two-window end pavilions. The entrance pavilion projects forward and has chamfered angle bays on either side that rise above the roofline, topped with ashlar coped pediments. The entrance features a central panelled doorway with a painted pilaster doorcase, flanked by two single plain sash windows. Above this, there is a central plain sash window with two similar sashes on either side. The top storey is taller and has south-facing round-headed sashes set in round-headed panels, with a continuous ashlar impost band.
The flanking side wings have south-facing plain sashes on each floor, with ashlar eaves lintels above the top floor. Each projecting side pavilion has a two-window facade, with three sashes on the ground floor and two windows on each of the upper floors. The side facades also feature similar sashes. The rear facade mirrors the main front in composition, primarily using two-light casements, and the central pavilion has a two-storey projecting wing topped with a hipped roof.
Local climate
Louth Hospital sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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