The Old Workhouse, Bridgend General Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 August 1986. Workhouse.

The Old Workhouse, Bridgend General Hospital

WRENN ID
worn-remnant-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Constituency
Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
7 August 1986
Type
Workhouse
Address
The Old Workhouse, Bridgend General Hospital, CF31 1LA
OS grid reference
SS 904 802
Coordinates
51.51061, -3.57973
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Workhouse at Bridgend General Hospital is a two-storey building with a plan consisting of three parallel ranges connected by a spinal range at the back of the southern range. It features a seven-three-five window arrangement with an advanced center. The exterior is faced with blue lias stone and has sandstone dressings, topped with slate roofs. The gables are adorned with cusped bargeboards and finials above the first-floor windows, and there are three steep gables with parapets, kneelers, and an inscribed cartouche at the center. The building has plain band courses between the storeys and a low plinth. The windows have voussoir lintels, with two-light designs and small casements on the upper floor, while the ground floor features modern window frames. In the center, there are two stone doorcases with drip stones, Gothic arches, and flush-panelled doors.

At the road end, there are single-storey extensions with hipped roofs over an arched entrance. To the right, modern buildings and a one-storey flat roof extension to the south are not considered of special interest. A western rubble-walled two-storey courtyard remains, radiating from a three-storey octagonal structure with ornately gabled angles. Additionally, there is a canted single-storey rubble range overlooking the road, which is raised by one storey at the southern end next to the side access to the walled courtyard.

Local climate

The Old Workhouse, Bridgend General Hospital sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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