Dingleton Hospital

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Dingleton Hospital
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The former Dingleton Hospital
Dingleton Hospital
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Shown in the Scottish Borders
Geography
Location Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland
Coordinates 55°35′26″N2°43′44″W / 55.5906°N 2.7289°W / 55.5906; -2.7289 Coordinates: 55°35′26″N2°43′44″W / 55.5906°N 2.7289°W / 55.5906; -2.7289
Organisation
Care system NHS Scotland
Type Psychiatric hospital
Services
Emergency department No
History
Opened1872
Closed2001
Links
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Dingleton Hospital was a mental health facility in Melrose, Scotland. The former boiler house is a Category B listed building. [1]

History

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 Historic Environment Scotland. "Chiefswood Road, former Dingleton Hospital boiler house including boundary walls  (Category B) (LB51064)" . Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Dingleton Hospital". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  3. 1 2 "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.