Langthorne Hospital (Main Original Block) (Formerly West Ham Union Workhouse) is a Grade II listed building in the Waltham Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. A Victorian Hospital.
Langthorne Hospital (Main Original Block) (Formerly West Ham Union Workhouse)
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-chamber-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Leyton and Wanstead MP: Mr Calvin Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- Hospital
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Langthorne Hospital (Main Original Block) (Formerly West Ham Union Workhouse), Langthorne Road E11
- OS grid reference
- TQ 390 859
- Coordinates
- 51.55504, 0.0038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Langthorne Hospital, originally known as the West Ham Union Workhouse, is a former workhouse that has been converted into a hospital. Built in 1840, it features stock brick, white brick, and some stucco dressings. The building has a low-pitched slate roof with parapets on the projecting bays and stands three storeys tall, comprising 19 bays. The central section is an advanced giant pilastered centerpiece of three bays with splayed sides, a pediment, and a clock. The end bays are also advanced and pedimented, with giant pilasters extending through the first and second floors. The fifth and fifteenth bays are similarly advanced, featuring pedimental blocking courses. The central entrance is tripartite and pilastered, adorned with a stucco architrave that extends to a tripartite window above and to the clock. Other projecting bays have similar stucco architraves and rusticated brick quoins. The windows are segmental-headed, set in segmental reveals in the advanced bays, and are fitted with sash, plate glass.
Local climate
Langthorne Hospital (Main Original Block) (Formerly West Ham Union Workhouse) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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