Frank James Memorial Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Hospital. 9 related planning applications.

Frank James Memorial Hospital

WRENN ID
forbidden-sandstone-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Wight
Constituency
Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1979
Type
Hospital
Address
Frank James Memorial Hospital, Adelaide Grove, East Cowes, PO32 6BZ
OS grid reference
SZ 504 953
Coordinates
50.75561, -1.28548
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Frank James Memorial Hospital is a purpose-built hospital from 1903, designed in a Dutch style. It is constructed of red brick with a tiled roof. The building features a central block with two projecting wings. The central block is one storey high with attics, adorned with four dormers that have wooden bargeboards, and a large central gable also with wooden bargeboards. This gable includes a plaque with an inscription and carved figures, topped by a square cupola that has a sundial, lantern, and a weathervane featuring a gilded ship. The central block has a four-centred archway. The projecting wings are two storeys high with attics, made of red brick and featuring end gables that are crowstepped. Each wing has five gabled dormers and clustered, moulded brick chimneystacks. A verandah surrounds the ground floor on all sides.

Local climate

Frank James Memorial Hospital receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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