| Winterton Hospital | |
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 Winterton Hospital | |
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  Shown in County Durham | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Sedgefield, County Durham, England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 54°40′13″N1°27′00″W / 54.6704°N 1.4501°W Coordinates: 54°40′13″N1°27′00″W / 54.6704°N 1.4501°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Speciality | Mental health |
| History | |
| Opened | 1858 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Winterton Hospital was a psychiatric hospital north of Sedgefield in County Durham, England.
A site for the facility at Far Winterton, north of Sedgefield, was purchased in 1855. [1] It was designed by the architect John Howison, the surveyor for the county of Durham, as a three-storey corridor plan asylum built in the Elizabethan style with 300 beds for inmates, along with a chapel and superintendent's quarters. [1] The facility opened as Durham County Lunatic Asylum in 1858. [2]
A major extension of the hospital, designed by William Crozier Jr. using a pavilion plan in the Italianate style with 400 beds for inmates as well as adding a new chapel, water tower, stables and cottages, was built between 1875 and 1880. [1]
The facility became Durham County Mental Hospital in 1925. [2] Further major additions, providing new admission and administration blocks, were made in the 1930s. [1] A hutted emergency hospital was built on the site during the Second World War. [1] The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and became a psychiatric facility known as Winterton Hospital in 1949. [2] It has been claimed that The League of Gentlemen performer and writer Mark Gatiss grew up around Winterton Hospital while his father worked there as an engineer in 1970s. [3] [lower-alpha 1]
Following the introduction of Care in the Community, Winterton Hospital went into a period of decline and eventually closed in 1996. [2] During demolition, contractors broke through into basement tunnels and rooms and discovered various preserved specimens taken from inmates. [4] The site has since been developed as a science park known as Netpark which was opened by the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in 2005. [5]
The hutted emergency hospital developed into Sedgefield General Hospital but, after in-patient services were transferred to the North Tees General Hospital in the 1960s, Sedgefield General Hospital was downgraded to the status of a community hospital, and operated as such until it was relocated to Salters Lane in 2003. [6] After the site had been cleared, a secure residential centre was planned for people with mental health problems, [7] but was never built. In 2017, a residential development, known as Hardwick Grange, was granted planning permission in its place. [8]
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