Beech House, Oak House and Linden House at Upton Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Slough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. Hospital. 2 related planning applications.
Beech House, Oak House and Linden House at Upton Hospital
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Slough
- Constituency
- Slough MP: Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Beech House, Oak House and Linden House at Upton Hospital, Albert Street, SL1 2BJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 977 794
- Coordinates
- 51.50552, -0.59268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech House, Oak House, and Linden House at Upton Hospital is a former Union Workhouse, built between 1835 and 1836 by Sampson Kempthorne. The building is constructed of stock brick with a rendered ground floor on the south side, featuring banded rustication and hipped slate roofs. It has a cruciform plan with a central octagonal staircase block and a three-storey block to the south, flanked by lower wings.
The south front has three storeys, with cill bands and deep eaves, and consists of five bays with glazing bar sashes, including first-floor windows that have blind hoods. The central entrance features a half-glazed door topped by a triangular pedimented hood supported by brackets. There are two-storey, one-bay wings on either side, with later one-storey wings that are slightly set back, featuring louvred clerestories, scattered glazing bar sashes, and half-glazed doors.
Notably, the Mrs. Sinkins Pink rose was first cultivated here around 1880 by the Master of the workhouse and was named after his wife, the Matron.
Local climate
Beech House, Oak House and Linden House at Upton Hospital sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- 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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