Newmarket General Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1984. Hospital.
Newmarket General Hospital
- WRENN ID
- little-cobble-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1984
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Newmarket General Hospital, Exning Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 637 641
- Coordinates
- 52.25126, 0.39768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Newmarket General Hospital, formerly known as White Lodge Hospital, is a disused workhouse turned hospital built in 1837, with later alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of yellow brick, featuring ashlar and brick dressings, and has slate roofs. It has a coped brick side wall and ridge stacks, a plinth, and dentillated eaves. The structure is two storeys high with varying ranges of height and contains 19 windows arranged in a pattern of 3:4:4:5:3. Most of the windows are round-headed glazing bar sashes.
The central entrance block is flanked by side ranges with end pavilions, creating a courtyard. The higher entrance block features first floor and impost bands, along with a pedimented gable. The rear gable displays a datestone and a square wooden bell turret with round arched openings topped by a weather vane shaped like a racehorse. The slightly projecting centre bay includes an elliptical arched carriage opening, which is now panelled and has a glazing bar fanlight, flanked by windows. All these openings have imposts and keystones. Above this, there are four windows arranged in a pattern of 1:2:1.
On each side of the entrance, there are canted brick bay windows from around 1902, with round arched openings. To the left, there are five windows, and to the right, there is an inserted door followed by three windows. Above these, there are four glazing bar sashes with brick flat arches. The right side also has five similar windows and some later insertions. The end pavilions have three windows on each floor, featuring impost bands, while the returns have similar windows without the bands. The rear ranges have altered fenestration below and regular fenestration above. The inner elevations have wide bracketed eaves that once protected a first-floor walkway.
Originally, the rear ranges were connected by two additional ranges, forming two enclosed yards; however, only part of one of these linking ranges remains, reduced to a single storey.
Local climate
Newmarket 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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