Dingleton Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland |
Coordinates | 55°35′26″N 2°43′44″W / 55.5906°N 2.7289°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS Scotland |
Type | Psychiatric hospital |
Services | |
Emergency department | No |
History | |
Opened | 1872 |
Closed | 2001 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
Dingleton Hospital was a mental health facility in Melrose, Scotland. The former boiler house is a Category B listed building. [1]
The hospital, which was designed by Brown & Wardrop, opened as the Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk District Asylum in May 1872. [2] [3] A new female hospital block was completed in 1898 and two new wings, designed by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, were completed in 1906. [2] The facility joined the National Health Service as Dingleton Hospital in 1948. [3] A monolithic concrete boiler house, designed by Peter Womersley, which still dominates the local skyline, was completed in 1977. [1]
After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 2001. [2] The main building has since been converted for residential use as "Dingleton Apartments" within a wider housing development across the former hospital site known as "Trimontium Heights". [4]
Dingleton Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland |
Coordinates | 55°35′26″N 2°43′44″W / 55.5906°N 2.7289°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS Scotland |
Type | Psychiatric hospital |
Services | |
Emergency department | No |
History | |
Opened | 1872 |
Closed | 2001 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
Dingleton Hospital was a mental health facility in Melrose, Scotland. The former boiler house is a Category B listed building. [1]
The hospital, which was designed by Brown & Wardrop, opened as the Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk District Asylum in May 1872. [2] [3] A new female hospital block was completed in 1898 and two new wings, designed by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, were completed in 1906. [2] The facility joined the National Health Service as Dingleton Hospital in 1948. [3] A monolithic concrete boiler house, designed by Peter Womersley, which still dominates the local skyline, was completed in 1977. [1]
After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 2001. [2] The main building has since been converted for residential use as "Dingleton Apartments" within a wider housing development across the former hospital site known as "Trimontium Heights". [4]