Penn Hospital, Former Children's Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1991. Hospital. 2 related planning applications.

Penn Hospital, Former Children's Hospital

WRENN ID
stranded-turret-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wolverhampton
Constituency
Wolverhampton West MP: Warinder Juss (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1991
Type
Hospital
Address
Penn Hospital, Former Children's Hospital, Penn Road, City of Wolverhampton, WV4 5HN
OS grid reference
SO 893 956
Coordinates
52.55903, -2.15919
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Penn Hospital, formerly the Children's Hospital, is a house and hospital built around 1770, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs with truncated brick end stacks. The building stands three storeys high and has a symmetrical five-window range, with a two-storey, two-window range to the left. It has top friezes and cornices, as well as coped gables.

On the ground floor, there are two mid-19th century canted plastered bay windows with high parapets and horned sashes. The first floor features windows with rusticated wedge lintels and fluted keys above 12-pane horned sashes, while the second floor has casement windows. The left range has windows with rusticated wedge lintels and fluted keys above large mid-19th century four-pane horned sashes on the ground floor and 12-pane horned sashes on the first floor.

The round-headed entrance is framed by an aedicule with panelled pilasters, rosettes on the entablature blocks, and an open pediment, leading to a panelled door. The left return has a 20th-century bow window with a balcony above, and the right return features a canted bay window with a hipped tile roof. At the rear, there is a wing connecting to a late 20th-century old people's hospital. The interior was not inspected.

Local climate

Penn Hospital, Former Children's Hospital receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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