Dingleton Hospital

Dingleton Hospital
The former Dingleton Hospital
Dingleton Hospital is located in Scottish Borders
Dingleton Hospital
Shown in the Scottish Borders
Geography
LocationMelrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland
Coordinates55°35′26″N 2°43′44″W / 55.5906°N 2.7289°W / 55.5906; -2.7289
Organisation
Care systemNHS Scotland
TypePsychiatric hospital
Services
Emergency departmentNo
History
Opened1872
Closed2001
Links
ListsHospitals in Scotland

Dingleton Hospital was a mental health facility in Melrose, Scotland. The former boiler house is a Category B listed building.[1]

History

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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]

References

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  1. ^ a b Historic Environment Scotland. "Chiefswood Road, former Dingleton Hospital boiler house including boundary walls (Category B Listed Building) (LB51064)". Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Dingleton Hospital". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Dingleton Hospital, Melrose". Lothian Health Services Archive. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Row erupts over new street names". Southern Reporter. 26 January 2006. Retrieved 25 April 2019.