Westminster Memorial Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Hospital. 5 related planning applications.

Westminster Memorial Hospital

WRENN ID
veiled-loft-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
Hospital
Address
Westminster Memorial Hospital, Abbey Walk, Shaftesbury, SP7 8BD
OS grid reference
ST 860 228
Coordinates
51.0048, -2.19989
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Westminster Memorial Hospital is a building dating from 1871, designed in the Gothic style. It features a tiled roof and is constructed of ashlar stone. The southeast front has two storeys and five windows, with a central bay that projects and is topped with a gable. This bay includes a three-light oriel window supported by moulded corbelling on the first floor, and a four-centred moulded stone doorway with stone columns on the ground floor. A moulded stone string runs at the first floor level and below the eaves. The windows in the side bays were originally mullioned, but most have been altered, with three original first-floor windows remaining. The northeast front facing Abbey Walk has three bays, with an additional projecting bay at the left end, and features Neo-Gothic stacks along with two and three-light mullioned windows.

Local climate

Westminster Memorial Hospital receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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