The Infirmary is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1986. Infirmary.

The Infirmary

WRENN ID
noble-cobalt-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 May 1986
Type
Infirmary
Address
The Infirmary, Guston
OS grid reference
TR 329 435
Coordinates
51.14357, 1.32904
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Infirmary is a building from 1909 designed by Sir Henry Tanner, located at the Duke of York's Royal Military School in Guston. It features a combination of pebbledash and red brick with a plain tiled roof, reflecting the Arts and Crafts Georgian style. The building has a symmetrical layout, consisting of a central main range flanked by end blocks connected by corridor wings.

The main range is two storeys high, characterized by rusticated quoins and a projecting central section topped with a pediment. It has a modillion eaves cornice beneath a hipped roof, with chimney stacks positioned to the left, center, and right. On the first floor, there are three paired glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor has two sash windows with brick aprons and a central tented bay window.

The single-storey flanking wings have returned hips adjacent to the main block, featuring semi-dormers, large wooden mullioned windows, and wooden porches with half-glazed doors. The end pavilions are raised on arched bases and are open throughout for ventilation. Colonnaded loggias are present on either side of the hipped blocks, with a single-storey service wing projecting from the return elevations. The building has glazing bar sashes throughout and segmentally headed semi-dormers on the return elevations. The interiors of the wards are barrel vaulted.

Local climate

The Infirmary receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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