Samaritan Hospital for Women is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Hospital. 4 related planning applications.
Samaritan Hospital for Women
- WRENN ID
- kindled-sandstone-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Samaritan Hospital for Women, Marylebone Road Nw1, City of Westminster, NW1 5QH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 275 818
- Coordinates
- 51.52081, -0.16339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Samaritan Hospital for Women is a hospital built between 1889 and 1890 by architects W.C. Habershon and F. Fawkner. It is constructed from hard red brick and terracotta, topped with a slate roof. The building showcases a bold eclectic terracotta classical style, featuring a symmetrical front adorned with a giant pilaster order and segmental bows. It stands three to four storeys high above a basement.
The centerpiece of the façade is a pedimented section that is four windows wide, flanked by slightly recessed, bow-windowed wings that are three storeys tall. The ground floor is rusticated and serves as a podium, with a central doorway framed by an entablature and narrow windows on either side. The windows are architraved, with those on the first floor of the centerpiece featuring pediments and balustraded aprons. These are supported by giant Corinthian pilasters that rise to the main entablature and a prominently modeled pediment. The wings have architraved sash windows and balustraded parapets in front of the second-floor architraved windows. The wings also feature rusticated quoins, topped with a crowning cornice and balustrading.
Local climate
Samaritan Hospital for Women 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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