Tolmers Park Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1972. Hospital.
Tolmers Park Hospital
- WRENN ID
- low-jamb-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1972
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Tolmers Park Hospital, Newgate Street, SG13 8RG
- OS grid reference
- TL 301 047
- Coordinates
- 51.72642, -0.11711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tolmers Park Hospital is a country house that was converted into a hospital in the 20th century and is now disused. Built in the 1830s, it features Greek and Italianate architectural styles. The exterior is finished in painted stucco with a slate roof and consists of two storeys. The main house, located at the right end of a long range that curves with the drive, has three windows and a tetrastyle Greek Ionic porte cochere. It includes round-headed double doors with a Vitruvian surround and arched ground floor windows that have bracketed cornices. The ends of the house are adorned with plain giant pilasters, and there is a sill and cornice band. The parapet has four acroteria, with the central ones raised on a balustrade. The house features sash windows, and the service wing has similar architrave surrounds to its windows, along with a pediment on the terminal pavilion. Inside, the house has a square entrance hall with a saucer-dome vault. The wing extends into a curved stock brick wall that leads to the east-facing stable block, which has five windows, segmental relieving arches over the outer and central projections, ground floor therm sash windows in the intermediate bays, corbelled eaves, and a slate roof.
Local climate
Tolmers Park Hospital sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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