Danesbury (Hospital) Front Block is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Hospital. 7 related planning applications.
Danesbury (Hospital) Front Block
- WRENN ID
- heavy-railing-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Danesbury (Hospital) Front Block, North Ride, AL6 9SA
- OS grid reference
- TL 232 171
- Coordinates
- 51.8396, -0.21183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a hospital, originally a country house dating back to around 1775. It was significantly rebuilt externally in the late 1820s and internally in the 1920s. The design is of a large, square block, three stories high, with full-height bow windows projecting from the ends of the elevations. The exterior is faced in channelled stucco, topped by a parapet and covered by a slate roof. The south elevation features three-window bow windows at each end and protruding corner details with plain pilasters. The central section has a two-window facade with a tetrastyle wooden Tuscan loggia. Sash windows are set within architrave surrounds. Moulded floor bands and a cornice run along the facade. The east and west elevations each feature a single bow window on the south side and four windows on the north. Inside, the building has a Queen Anne style with a prominent staircase featuring large barley-twist balusters.
Local climate
Danesbury (Hospital) Front Block 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- 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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