St Ann's Hospital is a Grade II* listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 October 1988. A Edwardian Hospital. 18 related planning applications.
St Ann's Hospital
- WRENN ID
- kindled-tower-wagtail
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Poole MP: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1988
- Type
- Hospital
- Period
- Edwardian
- Address
- St Ann's Hospital, Haven Road, BH13 7LN
- OS grid reference
- SZ 052 887
- Coordinates
- 50.69866, -1.92713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Ann's Hospital is a Grade II* listed building constructed between 1909 and 1912, with later 20th-century additions. Designed by R Weir Schultz, it features Flemish bond brickwork, cross-axial stacks, and a tiled roof, showcasing a Free Queen Anne style. The layout consists of parallel curved ranges connected by central blocks, with two storeys and an attic, along with a single-storey link block. The window arrangement is 10:7:10.
The entrance front includes a two-storey central range with exterior gable stacks and forward-curving single-storey side ranges. A central porch features a segmental arch and is key dated 1910. The building has keyed flat arches above 6/6-pane sash windows. A segmental-arched ridge cupola adds to the design. The garden front is symmetrical with a 7:14:7 window range, divided into three sections. The outer ranges are set back and angled, with cross ranges projecting one window deep and topped with ogee gables. The gables include canted bays with pierced balcony parapets, with single-storey balconies on the end gables and two-storey balconies on the centre and flanking gables, all supported by square brick piers. The ground floor features 6/6/6-pane sashes, while the first floor has keyed 6/9-pane sashes. Wide dormers with triple 4/4-pane sashes are present across the central section, and there are four round-gabled half dormers on the outer wings. The centre section is flanked by wide carriage arches with rusticated archivolts beneath first-floor oculi. The interior courtyards contain two three-storey service towers topped with pyramidal roofs.
Inside, the link blocks are panelled, and light wells feature decorative friezes, coffered ceilings, and moulded beam soffits. The dining room includes a fireplace with a shouldered lintel and an Ionic column arcade. This building is noted as one of Schultz's finest works, situated prominently on a cliff-top and originally built as the seaside branch of the Holloway Sanitorium in Surrey.
Local climate
St Ann's Hospital receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 96% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 18 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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