Gransha Hospital

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Gransha Hospital
Western Health and Social Care Trust
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Part of the old Gransha Hospital
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Location in Northern Ireland
Geography
LocationClooney Road, Derry, Northern Ireland
Coordinates 55°00′55″N7°16′46″W / 55.0154°N 7.2794°W / 55.0154; -7.2794 Coordinates: 55°00′55″N7°16′46″W / 55.0154°N 7.2794°W / 55.0154; -7.2794
Organisation
Care system Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland
Type Community
History
Opened1902

Gransha Hospital was a health facility in Clooney Road, Derry, Northern Ireland. The site is managed by Western Health and Social Care Trust.

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History

The facility was commissioned to replace the aging Londonderry County Asylum. [1] It was designed by Matthew Alexander Robinson in the Victorian style and built between 1902 and 1905. [2]

After joining the National Health Service in 1948, [3] the facility evolved to become the Stradreagh Hospital. [4] Two gate lodges were added in the 1960s. [5] Following the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline and almost all buildings in the old hospital were closed by December 2011. [6]

The main building of the old hospital was occupied by Oakgrove Integrated College on a temporary basis from 1992 [7] until the college moved into modern purpose-built accommodation in 2004. [8] It was subsequently left to decay and was badly damaged in a serious fire in March 2016. [9]

Current facilities

The following modern facilities have been established at Gransha Park, the site of the old hospital:

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