Dingleton Hospital

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

Dingleton Hospital
The former Dingleton Hospital
Shown in the Scottish Borders
Geography
LocationMelrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland
Coordinates55.5906°N 2.7289°W / 55.5906; -2.7289
Organisation
Care systemNHS Scotland
TypePsychiatric hospital
Services
Emergency departmentNo
History
Opened1872
Closed2001
Links
ListsHospitals in Scotland

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