Seamens Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1972. Hospital. 5 related planning applications.
Seamens Hospital
- WRENN ID
- ragged-moulding-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1972
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Seamens Hospital, Church Street, Whitby, YO22 4AP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 901 108
- Coordinates
- 54.48535, -0.61024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Seamen's Hospital, built in 1842 by Sir Gilbert Scott, is located on Church Street. The hospital has a Jacobean front elevation with two storeys and consists of nine bays. It is constructed of brick and features mullioned stone windows along with openwork balustraded parapets. The central gatehouse includes round niches above the archway, which is topped with a trophy of flags and cannon. Additionally, there is a pedimented feature flanked by model wood ship hulls and topped with a model rigged ship. The hospital was originally founded in 1670. Seamen's Hospital, along with Nos 44 to 51 (consecutive), forms a group.
Local climate
Seamens Hospital receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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