Isolation Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1994. Hospital. 2 related planning applications.
Isolation Hospital
- WRENN ID
- unlit-ledge-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1994
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Isolation Hospital, Arne
- OS grid reference
- SY 941 843
- Coordinates
- 50.65849, -2.0844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Arne Isolation Hospital is a former isolation hospital built in the early 1900s using a pre-fabricated system by Humphrey's of Knightsbridge, specifically type 3 from their range published in 1900. The building features a timber frame on a brick base, clad in corrugated iron, with a pitched corrugated iron roof. It is a single-storey structure that includes two wards accessible via external porches on either side of a central kitchen, bathroom, store, washroom, and three asymmetrically placed bedrooms, all reached through an off-centre lobby. The design includes louvres over the wards and a single brick chimney over the kitchen. The windows are top-opening casements. This hospital is noted for being a model pre-fabricated isolation hospital, representing a type that was once significant in the treatment of diseases in Britain and the Empire, and it is now recognized as the best-preserved example of its kind.
Local climate
Isolation Hospital receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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- Radon risk assessment
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