St Peter's Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Hospital. 18 related planning applications.
St Peter's Hospital
- WRENN ID
- muted-tin-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- St Peter's Hospital, 25-29, Henrietta Street Wc2, City of Westminster, WC2E 8NA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 302 807
- Coordinates
- 51.5111, -0.12399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St. Peter's Hospital is a hospital building constructed between 1880 and 1882 by architect J.M. Brydon, with modifications made by Henry Clutton, the architect for the Bedford Estate. The building is designed in the Queen Anne style, resembling the Shaw manner, and is made of red brick with rubbed and carved brick trim and Portland stone dressings, topped with a tiled roof. It stands five storeys tall and features a symmetrical front that is eleven windows wide, with narrow central and end pavilions that resemble towers.
The ground floor has a main entrance located in the central pavilion, which includes a block dressed archivolt arched doorway framed by Doric columns with blocked shafts, flanked by cartouches. The windows display Shavian patterns, featuring mullioned and transomed glazing bar sashes, tripartite arched centre light transomed windows, and oriels above the entrance on the first and second floors. The first and second floors of the wings are framed by pilasters that rise from the ground floor cornice and support the main entablature over the second floor. The attic storey has a secondary order and a modillion crowning cornice, with large dormers set in a steep roof.
The central pavilion is topped with a pedimented Dutch gable, and the roof behind is crowned by a weathervaned cupola. The end pavilions are finished with ogee capped turrets. The front facing St. Paul's Churchyard has a similar pattern of fenestration. Originally, the ground floor was designed to accommodate shops, but during a remodelling of the interior in 1930, these were incorporated into the hospital.
Local climate
St Peter's 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 18 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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