St Johns Hospital and Attached Front Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1951. Almshouse.
St Johns Hospital and Attached Front Wall
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1951
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- St Johns Hospital and Attached Front Wall, South Church Street, Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 216 684
- Coordinates
- 53.21255, -1.67709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John's Hospital, built in 1709 and restored in the 20th century, consists of six almshouses and an attached front wall. A plaque on the building indicates it was founded in 1602. The structure is made of coursed limestone with ashlar sandstone dressings and features a stone slate roof.
The hospital is a single storey with an attic and has a six-window range. Its symmetrical design includes three pairs of windows, each topped with a pedimented gable, arranged in a rhythm of two windows, two windows, and two windows. The building has a chamfered plinth, large quoins, and door surrounds that are chamfered and quoined, featuring deep lintels and reproduction studded Gothic panelled doors. The windows are chamfered, two-light mullioned types with iron casements and diamond-pane leaded lights. Each pair of doorways is located beneath the center of each gable and is flanked by windows under a continuous dripmould. There are ashlar stacks on the ridge behind each gable. The left return has a pedimented gable, while the right end of the building adjoins The Old Town Hall on King Street. The door of the right end almshouse is unnumbered, while the other doors are numbered 1 to 5 consecutively from the right.
The attached front wall features chamfered copings and round-headed gatepiers at the central opening. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
St Johns Hospital and Attached Front Wall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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