Administration Block at Shrodell's Wing, Watford General Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Watford local planning authority area, England. Hospital, workhouse. 1 related planning application.
Administration Block at Shrodell's Wing, Watford General Hospital
- WRENN ID
- vast-chapel-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Watford
- Constituency
- Watford MP: Matt Turmaine (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hospital, workhouse
- Address
- Administration Block at Shrodell's Wing, Watford General Hospital, Vicarage Road, WD18 0EY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 105 957
- Coordinates
- 51.64985, -0.40341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Administration Block at Shrodell's Wing, Watford General Hospital, dates from 1838 and later, originally serving as the Watford Union Workhouse. The low front range was demolished in 1950, leaving an open courtyard plan. The building is constructed of brick and consists of part 2½ and part 2-storeys, topped with slate roofs that are hipped on the taller blocks.
The central section features a 5-window range with a square wood ventilating turret on the ridge, and the three central bays project slightly. The first and ground floors have glazing bar sashes set in gauged brick flat-headed surrounds, while above, there are three small arched windows grouped together in the center. The outer bays contain six-pane windows. A later addition is a brick porch with a pediment supported by pilasters.
The road front pavilions have been altered from their original design, which included a triple sash window facing the courtyard and a blank triple window on the first floor facing the road, along with a blank triple arcade in the attic on the road front. The two-storey connecting wings are simpler, featuring ground floor sashes and upper casement windows. Some alterations have been made, including two ground floor three-sided bay windows on the left side.
Local climate
Administration Block at Shrodell's Wing, Watford General Hospital sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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