St Nicholas Hospital Main Entrance Range is a Grade II* listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1974. Hospital. 4 related planning applications.
St Nicholas Hospital Main Entrance Range
- WRENN ID
- high-cobalt-sienna
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Constituency
- Great Yarmouth MP: Rupert Lowe (RB)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1974
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- St Nicholas Hospital Main Entrance Range, Queens Road, NR30 3JU
- OS grid reference
- TG 528 064
- Coordinates
- 52.59712, 1.73197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The main entrance range of St Nicholas’ Hospital, originally the Royal Naval Asylum, was built between 1809 and 1811. It was designed by William Pilkington, under the supervision of Edward Holl, who was Architect to the Navy Board. The building is constructed of yellow stock brick with Portland stone dressings, and has slate roofs.
The range comprises a central archway with flanking screen walls and single-depth ranges. The central two-storey block features a Roman portico with two pairs of giant Tuscan pilasters framing a round entrance arch. The ground floor has four 6/6 sash windows, and the first floor has four 3/3 sash windows, all recessed behind the wall plane. A parapet sweeps down to the right and left, connecting to single-storey wings with sash windows and 20th-century casements. The wings have gabled roofs of a low pitch.
Historically, this building formed the main approach to the hospital, with kitchens located in the side ranges. It is noted as a unique example of military planning; it is thought the entrance range might have screened officers’ houses, formerly located to the north, from the main hospital building. It is part of a significant group of early naval hospital buildings.
Local climate
St Nicholas Hospital Main Entrance Range receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 10 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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