St Tydfil's Hospital: Entrance Block (Centre Part Only) is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1988. Hospital.
St Tydfil's Hospital: Entrance Block (Centre Part Only)
- WRENN ID
- knotted-tracery-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- St Tydfil's Hospital: Entrance Block (Centre Part Only), Town
- OS grid reference
- SO 051 063
- Coordinates
- 51.74795, -3.3759
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
St Tydfil's Hospital Entrance Block is a two-storey structure built in the Decorated Gothic style. The central part of the building features a gabled range that projects forward, constructed with snecked rubble facings and freestone dressings, topped with a slate roof that includes a ventilator. The gable has a kneelered parapet adorned with a finial and a date panel.
A large four-light traceried window, decorated with ogee quatrefoils, cusping, and a crenellated transom, is set under a segmented head and features a drip mould with headstops. The upper floor is corbelled out and linked to a bold three-light ground floor window, which has a rectangular drip mould, foliage stops, and carved spandrels. The right side of the building has a two-light window above the three-light window, maintaining the same decorative details.
On the left side, there is a similar upper window positioned above a gabled porch that projects from a two-storey Tudor-style block facing Union Place. This side also includes a gabled wing with an apex chimney on the outer left. The building features slate roofs, sash windows set in chamfered reveals, and a pointed doorway beneath a Gothic fanlight.
The rear elevation mirrors the front, showcasing a two-window gabled cross-range with traceried two-light windows similar to those at the front. The attached southern range is not included in this description.
Local climate
St Tydfil's Hospital: Entrance Block (Centre Part Only) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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