Outbuildings at Lucas Hospital is a Grade II* listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1987. Outbuilding.
Outbuildings at Lucas Hospital
- WRENN ID
- tangled-lime-lark
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1987
- Type
- Outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- SU 812 674
- Coordinates
- 51.39987, -0.83342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The outbuildings at Lucas Hospital are a long, low block consisting of 18 structures, built in the 17th century. They feature a central passageway that connects the Almshouse to a walled garden. Constructed of brick, the buildings have an old tiled gabled roof and are single-storey. A 19th-century chimney is located at the left end. Each outbuilding has one planked door with a wooden latch, and there are perforated brick ventilation slots in the centre of each brick panel between the doors. The roof structure includes queen post trusses and clasped purlins.
Local climate
Outbuildings at Lucas Hospital sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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