Ripon and District Hospital: Main Block is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1991. Hospital. 5 related planning applications.
Ripon and District Hospital: Main Block
- WRENN ID
- spare-floor-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1991
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Ripon and District Hospital: Main Block, Firby Lane, HG4 2PR
- OS grid reference
- SE 310 711
- Coordinates
- 54.13547, -1.52684
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ripon and District Hospital: Main Block is a former dispensary built in 1850. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features a slate hipped roof with an ashlar parapet. The building has an ashlar plinth, raised quoins, raised first floor and cill bands, as well as a moulded eaves cornice. It is two storeys high.
The east front consists of a six-bay centre, which has a projecting two-bay section topped by an open pediment. There is a central round-headed doorway with double panel doors and a single plain fanlight, all set in a moulded ashlar surround with a keystone. On either side of the doorway are rusticated piers with a bracketed flat hood above, leading to single narrow round-headed margin light sashes with pilasters beyond. Above the frieze, the word 'DISPENSARY' is displayed in raised letters.
To either side of the central section are two glazing bar sashes in shouldered and eared ashlar surrounds with keystones. Above these, there are six glazing bar sashes in plain ashlar surrounds. The building also features a three-bay lower wing to the south, which has pairs of plain sashes in ashlar surrounds with pilaster strips in between. To the north, there is another lower wing with two single sashes and a pair of plain sashes, along with a panel door. Above this section are three single windows and a double window, all with plain ashlar surrounds.
Local climate
Ripon and District Hospital: Main Block receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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