Derbyshire

ASHBOURNE

Ashbourne Cottage Hospital (Victoria Cottage Hospital; now Victoria Court) SK 180 469 102410

Ashbourne Cottage Hospital was built in 1903 to designs by the architect A. E. Evill of Manchester. Founding a cottage hospital had been proposed in 1887 to mark Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, modelled on the hospital in Leek. Nothing was done until 1899 when a hospital seems to have opened in Buxton Road in an existing house, replaced by the purpose-built hospital. Like many cottage hospitals of this era it was designed in a domestic stockbroker Tudor style. The main range is two storeys, red brick to the ground storey and white-painted render above, and a proliferation of half-timbered gables.

Ashbourne Cottage Hospital, OS map revised in 1920, reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland, CC-BY (NLS)

A separate nurses’ home was first proposed in 1911, but may not have been built. The hospital itself was extended after the Second World War in 1947, just before transfer to the NHS. It closed in 1967 after which it was divided into seven flats and renamed Victoria Court. It was derelict in May 2019, photographs from that time can be seen on Derelict Places.

Ashbourne Maternity Home, The Green Road SK 184 471 (converted to housing)

Ashbourne Maternity Home on the large-scale OS map revised in 1971 CC-BY (NLS)

This small maternity hospital, originally with just 9 beds, was built by Derbyshire County Council in the 1920s to designs by G. H. Widdows (who was paid 100 guineas for his services).[Derby & Chesterfield Reporter, 15 April 1927, p.1.] The home was officially opened on 30 November 1926 by the Duchess of Devonshire. The accommodation comprised 6 beds in a ‘public’ ward and three in one-bedded private wards. The new home replaced an earlier home at Ashbourne, also established by the County Council which had opened in 1919 with just 3 beds, probably in an adapted private house.[Derbyshire Advertiser & Journal, 10 Oct. 1919, p.6.]

Ashbourne Maternity Home, plan from Derbyshire County Council, Annual Report of W. M. Ash, the County Medical Officer of Health for 1926

The proposal to build a maternity home was approved by the Ministry of Health in September or October 1924.[Derby & Chesterfield Reporter, 10 Oct. 1924, p.8.] Two years later the building was nearing completion, and £500 allocated by the Council for the purchase of furniture and equipment. Local residents had contributed to the cost of the site and to laying out the grounds. [Derby & Chesterfield Reporter, 8 Oct. 1926, p.8.] A contract to build a new isolation block and clinic was advertised in September 1939 (The Builder, 1 Sept 1939, p.275). In 1988 the Ashbourne Maternity home was one of four maternity units in Derbyshire threatened with closure (the others were at Ilkeston, Heanor and the Chevin Maternity Unit at Belper’s Babington Hospital).[Derby Daily Telegraph, 18 may 1988, pp.17-18.]

St Oswald’s Hospital (former, originally Ashbourne Union Workhouse) SK 174 464  102411 demolished

Ashbourne Union Workhouse, OS Map revised 1898 CC-BY (NLS)

Ashbourne Poor Law Union was formed in 1845 comprised of 61 townships in the surrounding area. The former parish workhouse in Dig Street was sold in 1846 and work put in hand on the new building to designs by Henry Isaac Stevens, architect of Derby. The new building was completed in 1848. Vagrant wards were added in 1855. There was an infirmary range to the rear. The workhouse became a hospital under the NHS and an outpatients’ department added in about the 1950s. [see workhouses.org for more details and photographs of the hospital.]

St Oswald’s Hospital, Clifton Road SK 175 462

A new community hospital built to replace the former hospital. It opened in 2010.

ASHOVER

Stubben Edge Hall, SK 361 620. 

Small country house built in stone. Three-storey, three-bay main block with large dressed stone wings and a two-storey canted bay to garden facade. Converted to a convalescent home between 1939-1970

ASTON-ON-TRENT

Aston Hall Mental Hospital (Aston Hall Colony for Mental Defectives) SK 415 291 61425

BAKEWELL

Bakewell Cottage Hospital (Bakewell and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital) SK 216 683 102068

The cottage hospital in Bakewell was built as a memorial to the First World War in 1920-2. It was designed by J. E. Bladon, architect, of Liverpool. The idea of building a hospital hereabouts had been put forward during the war. The Herbert Brooke Taylor Ward was added in 1925, and the Hoyle Wing built in 1933 to designs by Chapman and Jenkinson, architects, Sheffield. The hospital closed in 1990. It is now the Bakewell Cottage Nursing Home.

Newholme Hospital (Bakewell Union Workhouse) SK 220 691 102069

BELPER

Babington Hospital (Belper Union Workhouse) SK 346 470 102413

BRETBY

Bretby Hall Orthopaedic Hospital SK 300 226 102604

BURNASTON

Pastures Hospital (Derby County Lunatic Asylum) SK 297 331 102238

BUXTON

Buxton Hospital (Buxton Cottage Hospital) SK 062 724 102419

Devonshire Royal Hospital (Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity) SK 055 737 102420

CHESTERFIELD

Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital (Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Hospital)
  SK 381 715  102235

Scarsdale Hospital (Chesterfield Union Workhouse)
 SK 381 715  100617

Walton Hospital (Derbyshire Sanatorium; Walton Sanatorium) SK 374 696   102421

DARLEYDALE

Whitworth Hospital SK 285 615  102422

DERBY

City Hospital (Derby City Hospital) SK 327 350  102415Derbyshire Children’s Hospital (Derbyshire Hospital for Sick Children) SK 349 370  102236

Derbyshire Royal Infirmary (Derbyshire General Hospital)
 SK 350 355  102237

Kingsway Hospital (Derby Borough Lunatic Asylum; Derby Borough Mental Hospital) SK 328 356 102407

Manor Hospital (Derby Union Workhouse; Boundary House Institution) SK 327 353 102408

Nightingale Nursing Home SK 358 356 102409

GLOSSOP

Partington Convalescent Home SK 030 930 102537

Wood’s Continuation Hospital (Wood’s Hospital) SK 030 930 102536

HEANOR AND LOSCOE

Heanor and District Memorial Hospital (Heanor, Langley Mill and District Memorial Hospital) SK 438 460 102417

HOLBROOK

Edith Adela Strutt Memorial Convalescent Home (Derbyshire Infirmary Convalescent Home) SK 360 450 BF102538. Convalescent home of the Derby Infirmary erected in 1899. Two-storey stone built home in well laid-out grounds designed by Hunter and Woodhouse. By 1968 it was a maternity home.

HOLMESFIELD

Sheffield Poor Children’s Holiday and Convalescent Home, possibly not built. Architectural perspective in The Builder, 20 April 1904, architect H. L. Paterson. Article on proposed home, Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 20 June 1904, p.8.  SK 320 770 BF102535

ILKESTON

Ilkeston Hospital (now Apricot Nursing Home) SK 461 430 102416

PARWICH

Florence Ada Monica Rathborne Convalescent Home (Rathborne Convalescent Home; now Parwich Care Centre for the Elderly) SK 189 547 BF102418. Convalescent home for women and children designed by W R Mosley and built 1912-13. Two-storeyed E-plan with rear wing. Local limestone with slate roof. The Shields Wing, an extension to the east, was built in 1988. Now an old peoples home.

RIPLEY

Ripley Hospital (Ripley Cottage Hospital) SK 396 502 102414

SHIREBROOK

Langwith District Isolation Hospital SK 517 682 102719

STAVELEY

Chesterfield RDC Isolation Hospital (Mastin Moor Hospital; now Castle View Nursing Home) SK 460 757 102423