Gatehouse Range to Amersham Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Hospital gatehouse.
Gatehouse Range to Amersham Hospital
- WRENN ID
- far-garret-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Hospital gatehouse
- Address
- Gatehouse Range to Amersham Hospital, Whielden Street
- OS grid reference
- SU 955 970
- Coordinates
- 51.66377, -0.61982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatehouse range to Amersham Hospital, designed by architect George Gilbert Scott in 1838, is built in the Tudor style using squared knapped flint with red brick dressings and ornamentation. The building features a slate roof and brick stacks, some of which are missing, with diagonal shafts. It has cogged brick eaves, brick gable parapets, and shaped kneelers. The structure consists of one storey and an attic, with a two-storey central gabled block that includes a Tudor carriage arch, which is now blocked. The initials "AV" and a stepped string course are located above the arch.
On the first floor, there is a moulded brick cross mullion window dated 1838, with a string course that steps up to form a hood-mould. Attic lights with a diamond motif are positioned on each side. Flanking the central block are octagonal piers that end in pinnacles with ogee finials, and a smaller pinnacle above the gable. Each side of the building has two bays of cross mullioned windows, with an arched door located in the left-hand bay. The projecting gabled wings feature four-light cross mullion windows with hoods, all adorned with a moulded brick zig-zag pattern above, and attic lights with a diamond motif. The end bays have one window each, with a door in the left-hand bay and brick diaper patterns on each side. The gable ends include a four-light moulded brick cross mullion window on the left and a chimney stack with diaper patterns on the right. Shaped half gables mask the rear projection.
Local climate
Gatehouse Range to Amersham Hospital sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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