Central Block of St Marys Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Luton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1981. Hospital. 1 related planning application.
Central Block of St Marys Hospital
- WRENN ID
- turning-entrance-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Luton
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1981
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Central Block of St Marys Hospital, Dunstable Road, LU1 1BE
- OS grid reference
- TL 085 214
- Coordinates
- 51.88092, -0.42367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The central block of St Mary's Hospital, formerly a Union Workhouse, was built around 1834. It is constructed from Luton grey bricks and topped with Welsh slate roofs. The section facing Dunstable Road features a central two-storey block with a hipped roof and deep eaves. On the first floor, there are four sash windows with glazing bars, each set under gauged brick heads with keystones. The central feature is a semi-circular arched dummy window with in-and-out quoins. The ground floor mirrors this arrangement with a central doorway. Flanking the central block are two lower rectangular wings; the left wing has three windows per floor, while the right wing has two, all adorned with stucco heads. At the rear, there is a long projecting wing that includes a central hexagonal block.
Local climate
Central Block of St Marys Hospital sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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