Mortuary of St Bartholemew's Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1991. Garden building.

Mortuary of St Bartholemew's Hospital

WRENN ID
tired-timber-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1991
Type
Garden building
Address
Mortuary of St Bartholemew's Hospital, Hospital Lane
OS grid reference
TQ 751 678
Coordinates
51.38281, 0.51541
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Mortuary of St Bartholomew's Hospital is a garden building that is now part of St Bartholomew's Hospital. It dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century and is constructed of painted stucco on brick, with slate roofs. The building has two storeys, and the lower wing has been raised to two storeys in a Gothic or 'Castle Style'.

The centre features a ground floor door with a four-centered arch, which is set under a drip mould head and is accessed by stairs with a balustrade. The first floor has three plate glass sash windows that were inserted around 1900. At the corners of the building, there are two rounded towers that include arrow slit openings on both the ground and first floors. A drip-mould string runs across the towers at the first floor level, with a similar string at the parapet level that features battlements.

To the east, there is a recessed wing with three Gothic-headed openings on the ground floor, and the second floor has a hipped slate roof. The west wing includes a flat-roofed addition that was added around 1960. At the rear, there are small angle buttresses with ogees at the heads. This building serves as an eye-catching feature for No 257 High Street to the north.

Local climate

Mortuary of St Bartholemew's Hospital sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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