BARNARD CASTLE

Richardson Hospital (Robert Richardson Convalescent Home), John Street NZ 054 168 BF102197 demolished

The Starlings, a late-19th century villa, was bequeathed by Robert Richardson as a convalescent home. Richardson, a solicitor, had discussed the difficulties for patients having to travel to Newcastle with the local doctor, Alec Leishman. After Richardson’s death, the house was converted for hospital use to plans drawn up in 1935 by the local architects, Wetherall, Dent adn Pickersgill. These were for minor alterations to the house intself and the addition of two, two-storey wings on the north and east sides of the building.

The north wing can be seen on the OS map above, the east wing was added later. It was taken over as an Emergency hospital during the Second World War and was transferred to the NHS in 1948. A geriatric unit was added in 1968 to the north. More recently the hospital was replaced by the new Richardson Community Hospital (opened 2007) on ground to the north-east. This was land formerly owned by the workhouse (see below) where a health centre had been built in the early 1970s. The old hospital was subsequently demolished and the Manor House Care Home built on the site around 2009

Teesdale Union Workhouse, Galgate NZ 054 169 BF102200. largely demolished

Teesdale Union Workhouse was a stone building erected in 1838 at a cost of £2,500. It could accommodate 138 inmates. An infirmary and infectious ward were built near the workhouse at a cost of over £3,000 between 1857 and 1892. The main workhouse buildings had been demolished by 2005, but two other buildings (including the infirmary) in the north east corner of the site were still extant.

The infirmary consisted of a two-storey building of stone with a Welsh slate roof, originally with an eight-bay long frontage, which had been extended by two bays by 1892. The two central bays of the original building project forward slightly and are surmounted by a gable; the three-bay wings to either side have a door next to the centre bay. The two-bay extensions comprise of a room and an end sanitary tower. A second two storey building, in the same materials with an eight-bay long front and two doors, may be the infectious ward or domestic workhouse accommodation. Its doors lead into stair halls with staircases with stone steps, iron balusters and iron handrails.

By 1939, it had become a Public Assistance Institution. It was administered as a single unit during World War II by the Emergency Medical Scheme along with the neighbouring Robert Richardson Convalescent Home. By the 1960s the former workhouse had become a home for the elderly, named Cambridge House Hostel. In the early 1970s the old people’s home closed and was demolished to make way for a new care home, named Stoneleigh, which opened in about 1974 (Health and Social Services Journal, 1974, vol.84, p.1756). The two associated detached buildings to the north-east became Bede Hospital, but have since been converted into housing (nos 1-4 and 708 Claire House Way).

In 2004 Stoneleigh care home was demolished – though it was barely thirty years old – and replaced by Charles Dickens Lodge, 36 ‘Extra Care retirement apartments’.

For more information on the former workhouse see workhouses.org.

Witham Hall (Witham Testimonial) NZ 050 164 102199

Now a community venue known as ‘The Witham’, this handsome building was built by public subscription in 1854 as a memorial, or ‘testimonial’ to H. T. M. Witham of Lartington Hall, geologist and local benefactor, after his death in 1844. The hall was designed by John and Benjamin Green to house the local Mechanics Institute and the Dispensary Society. In 1860 a music hall was added to the rear. In the early 20th century the building still housed the dispensary.

BISHOP AUCKLAND

Binchester Whins Hospital (Auckland, Shildon and Willington JHB Smallpox Hospital; Binchester Whins Smallpox Hospital) NZ 218 328  102219 demolished

Binchester hospital occupied an isolated spot to the north of Bishop Auckland and west of Spennymoor. It was originally built for smallpox cases by the Auckland, Shildon and Willington Joint Hospital Board, which had formed in 1897. The Board also built isolation hospitals closer to Bishop Auckland at Tindale Crescent and near Crook at Helmington Row (see below). The smallpox hospital was built around 1900, the OS map showing four buildings: a ward block with a laundry to the east and two smaller blocks to the west, one probably a ward block the other possibly a caretaker’s cottage. It seems to have been of temporary corrugated iron construction.

By the late 1930s the hospital was being maintained on a care-and-maintenance bassis, though an addition was made to the south around that time. Tenders were invited for unspecified work in September 1938 (The Builder, 16 Sept 1938, p.555).

In 1948 the hospital was transferred to the NHS and initially was used to decant patients from Bishop Auckland General Hospital – specifically female patients with learning disabilities (termed ‘mental defectives’ at that time). The ward blocks to the south then became dormitories and a hut was used as a dayroom, dining room adn staff quarters. It remained in use until 1978 when its patients were transferred to Sedgefield General Hospital, after which the Binchester hospital was demolished. (Sources: A. J. A. Ferguson et al, A History of Medicine in South-West Durham, 1989; H. Lett and A. E. Quine, Ministry of Health. Hospital Survey. The Hospital Services of the North-Eastern Area. Historic England Archives, BF 102219.)

Bishop Auckland General Hospital (Bishop Auckland Union Workhouse; Oaklands PLI) NZ 208 290  102207 largely demolished

The present hospital opened in 2002 on the site of the former general hospital, that had originally been built as the Auckland Union Workhouse in 1853-5 well to the south of the town. A separate infirmary wing was added in 1877 to the west, and a further large infirmary wing was added between 1909 and 1914 on the adjoining site further west. The later infirmary wing is the only part of the hospital surviving today.

During the Second World War emergency hutted wars were built on the site and in 1942 the hospital was renamed Bishop Auckland Emergency Hospital, and a year later Oaklands Emergency Hospital. From 1944 to 1947 it housed German prisoners of war.

The hospital transferred to the NHS in 1948, and expanded into a general hospital with new buildings added further west of the infirmary wings – perhaps on the site of some of the emergency hospital huts, though others remained in use in the 1960s.

For further details and images see Historic England Archives, building file 102207, and workhouses.org

Homelands Hospital (Auckland, Shildon and Willington Joint Isolation Hospital; Helmington Row Fever Hospital) NZ 178 349 102210 demolished

The second isolation hospital built by Auckland, Shildon and Willlington Joint Hospital after Tindale Crescent Hospital (see below). This was a close copy of the earlier hospital, built to designs by the same architect, W. Perkins, in 1902-4. A block for tuberculosis patients was added in 1914, and the admin block extended at the same time. After transfer to the NHS in 1948 the Helmington Row hospital gradually developed into a geriatric unit.

By the 1970s the hospital had changed its name to Homelands, and was still functioning in the early 1990s. It was demolished in 2016 (there are photographs of the derelict buildings on 28 days later and derelict places. Record photography can also be found along with further information in the building file at Historic England Archives (reference BF 102210).

Lady Eden Cottage Hospital (Eden House Care Home) NZ 210 290 102208

The Lady Eden Cottage Hospital was built just opposite the Auckland Workhouse, on the other side of Cockton Hill Road, in 1898-9. It was established to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, following an inaugural meeting held on 26 March 1897 chaired by Lady Sybil Eden, after whom the hospital was named. The site was purchased the same year, and two architects invited to submit plans that were judged by the great hospital chronicler Sir Henry Burdett. He selected those by James Garry of West Hartlepool. The estimated cost was under £2,000 (The Builder, 23 April 1898, p.400).

The foundation stone was laid by Earl Grey, a cousin of Lady Eden, in July 1898, and was officially opened by the Earl of Roseberry in September 1899. It was then described as a cottage hospital for miners, and was intended primarily for accident cases. An additional ward was built in 1904, and further enlargements carried out in 1906-10. The hospital transferred to the NHS, latterly as the Lady Eden Day Unit, officially opeend in 1992 by Stephen Dorrell, then Under Secretary of State for Health. A bust of Lady Eden formerly in the hospital was moved to Tindale Crescent Hospital.

Tindale Crescent Hospital (Auckland, Shildon and Willington JHB Infectious Diseases Hospital) NZ 199 276 102209 demolished

This was the first isolation hospital built by the Auckland, Shildon and Willington Joint Hospital Board. It was built in 1899-1900 to designs by the local architect, W. Perkins after a competition advertised in 1898 (The Builder, 15 Jan. 1898, p.70). The hospital comprised an administration block, three ward blocks, ancillary buildings and a lodge.

The hospital transferred to the NHS in 1948, initially for patients with tuberculosis but after 1955 it became a geriatric hospital. It was still in use in the early 1990s. By 2006 the hospital had closed and in 2009 the site was being redeveloped with housing, as Snowdon Crescent. The original brick boundary wall on Greenfields Road seems to have been retained.

BRANDON AND BYSHOTTLES

Brandon and Byshottles Urban District Fever Hospital NZ 235 400 102672 demolished

A small infectious diseases hospital had been built on the eastern outskirts of Brandon by 1895. A new ward wing was added on the east side, linked to the main hospital by a corridor, probably in the early 1900s. About the same time a lodge ws built to the west, and the service or ancillary buildings extended. In the 1960s the hospital is marked on the OS map as the Brandon Pre-Convalescent Home. It had disappeared by the 1980s, though the lodge survives. A housing development has been built on the site of the hospital, in a cul de sac called High Croft.

CHESTER-LE-STREET

Chester-le-Street Hospital (Chester-le-Street Union Workhouse) NZ 274 508 102216 demolished

The workhouse was designed by Matthew Thompson, architect, of Newcastle, commenced in 1855.

When first built in 1855-6, Chester-le-Street workhouse was on the southern edge of the town. By the 1890s it was becoming engulfed by the expansion of the town, with new housing, and the railway line not far from its rear boundary. Major expansion on the site occurred between the wars. It became a public assistance institution after the 1929 Local Government Act reforms, and during the Second World War emergency hutted wards were added – still extant in the early 1990s.

Under the NHS the hospital had been renamed Chester-le-Street Hospital. The site was cleared to make way for a new community hospital in 2000-2003. For more information and record photography see the building file at Historic England Archives (ref BF 102216) and workhouses.org.

Highfield Hospital (Chester-le-Street Hospital for Infectious Diseases) NZ 273 524 102217 demolished

The infectious diseases hospital for Chester-le-Street was built well to the north of the town, in 1893 comprising three corrugated iron buildings providing twenty beds.

Between 1900 and 1914 the temporary blocks were replaced by brick-built ward blocks and an administration block, along with a gate lodge and ancillary buildings. Further extensions were carried out in the inter-war years.

Under the NHS the hospital had changed its name to Highfield Hospital by 1970, no doubt reflecting a change of use. Many former infectious diseases hospitals were adapted for long-stay patients or as geriatric units once there was no need to isolate patients with infectious diseases in separate hospitals. Highfield Hospital was used to decant patients from the main town hospital (see above) in 2002, while the new community hospital was being built. It was then demolished and the site developed for housing. Record photographs of the hospital can be found in Historic England Archives, reference BF 102217.

CHILTON

Chilton Health Centre NZ 286 297 102491

A modest little building, erected as a clinic to serve the growing mining village of Chilton in the inter-war years. It was still in use as an NHS Health Centre in 2010, but latterly has been occupied by the Nerams group, an independent ambulance service. From Google Streetview, it appears that the building survives with minor alterations – the glazing was replaced some time betwene 2010 and 2021, not in the same style. The street front has a shaped gable cum pediment, its round-head framing a circular panel that looks rather worn, the large central window with blond sandstone surround has a triangular pediment. It was built next-door-but two to the cinema, which has not survived. A 1950s/60s shop stands on that site now. Of similar date is the rear extension of the clinic, when it was turned into a health centre. Between the two are memorial cottages, incorporating a war memorial on the façade.

CONSETT

Consett Infirmary NZ 105 509 102489

The building is dated 1877, and was situated between the Christ Church vicarage and the police station. By the 1960s it was in use as a YMCA, which it continued to be until at least 2015. (A telephone exchange had by then been built on the site of the vicarage.) Central gabled bay of two storeys and attic with single-storey wings, and a further wing to the rear. A detached mortuary was built to the rear of the infirmary in the 1920s-30s.

This building replaced an earlier infirmary on the same site. It was a make-shift building set up by the Consett Iron Company for its workmen by about 1865. It had formerly been a pit-viewer’s dwelling, and was soundly criticised in the Consett Guardian in June 1876 by Dr W. M. Renton. Dr Renton blamed the state of the old infirmary for causing a patient to develop blood poisoning from which he died. In his report to the Coroner, Dr Renton called for the unhealthy state of the infirmary to be remedied ‘but probably it could not be done without razing the present structure altogether and building another’. When he had visited the building, he said that he had been ‘perfectly astonished’ to discover that it was an infirmary at all, and that he had never seen anything like it in the course of his experience.

A week later, the Consett Guardian carried a fuller account of the infirmary. It presented the appearance of a ‘long low cottage-tenement, homely, small-roomed, and generally diminutive’. One entrance led from a ‘close’ and dark kitchen through to a consulting room and then the surgery ‘a still smaller slip of a place’. Next to the surgery was an equally small waiting-room for out-patients. Behind this suite of rooms were a large ward (16 foot by 12, with three beds), small ward, entrance hall, and resident doctor’s sitting room. The larger ward had a roof ventilator ‘of a very antique pattern’, which was opened or closed by being ‘shove round with one of the patients’ crutches or a stick’. The small ward was 14 ft 8 ins by 12 ft 7 ins, and low ceilinged at just 8ft high. It contained two beds. Although the hospital nominally only had beds for five patients, it commonly had six, and sometimes seven patients. According to the newspaper report, if that were the case then patients had to share a bed. A housekeeper served as both day and night nurse. [Sources: Consett Guardian, 10 June 1876, p.5, ‘local notes by “Phiz”‘ 17 June 1876, p.5.]

Richard Murray Hospital, St Cuthbert’s Avenue NZ 096 523 102490 (demolished)

Built c.1913, from funds bequeathed by Richard Murray as a memorial to Edward VII. Under the NHS it became a maternity hospital, but was replaced by a new unit at Shotley Bridge General Hospital. For images and more information see the account by the Shotley Bridge Village Trust

Shotley Bridge General Hospital (Shotley Bridge Sanatorium; Shotley Bridge Ministry of Pensions Hospital) NZ 103 527 102213

The present Shotley Bridge General Hospital was built to replace a range of older hospital and health care related buildings. The earliest of those was a sanatorium built in 1910-12 by the Gateshead Board of Guardians, followed by a home for the aged and infirm begun in 1912. The architects were Newcombe & Newcombe.

From 1919 the hospital was taken on lease by the Ministry of Health for military casualties, transferring in 1922 to the Ministry of Pensions to house ex-servicemen. In 1926 it was acquired by Newcastle City Corporation and converted into a ‘Mental Deficiency’ institution known as the Shotley Bridge Colony. During the Second World War a large hutted annexe was erected to the south-east of the main hospital buildings as part of the Emergency Medical Scheme, and it became an emergency hospital. Under the NHS it continued to develop as a general hospital, with new operating theatres built in 1952, a fracture clinic in 1953, a casualty department in 1960, out-patients’ department in 1966 and Maternity Unit and doctors’ residence in 1968. Only the later additions survive, most services having relocated to the new University Hospital of North Durham which opened in 2001. See Shotley Bridge Village Trust website for images and more details, and see Historic England Archives for record photographs and a report on the hospital from 1992-4.

DARLINGTON

Darlington Infectious Diseases Hospital (Darlington Municipal Borough Fever Hospital; Hundents Day Unit) NZ 301 145 102203

The original hospital buildings have all been demolished, with a housing estate built on the site (around Larkspur Drive and Violet Grove). Darlington Town Council organised a competition to design the hospital in 1872, which was won by the local architect, G. G. Hopkins. The foundation stone was laid in 1873, and work completed the following year. It was designed for 32 patients originally, but that was increased to 44 before the plans were finalised. There were various later additions, including a disinfecting chamber in 1890, a laundry in 1911, and mortuary in 1913. A cubicle isolation block was built in 1936-8. In 1913-14 a separate smallpox hospital was erected a little to the north-east of the main hospital (this had been demolished by the mid-1950s).

By 1938 the hospital had 120 beds, 12 of which were used for cases of TB. After the Second World War the hospital was transferred to the NHS and renamed Hundens Hospital. With a decline in the need for infectious diseases’ beds, the ENT and Ophthalmic departments for Darlington Memorial Hospital was transferred here in 1952-3. A small isolation unit remained at Hundens, as well as a TB unit and a geriatric ward. In the 1970s a new day hospital was built. The remainder of the hospital had been demolished by the early 1990s.

Darlington Memorial Hospital (Darlington War Memorial Hospital) NZ 283 152 102194

In February 1919 a town meeting was held where it was decided to build a hospital as a war memorial, and to make up for the deficiencies of Greenbank Hospital (see below). Designs were commissioned from the local architect, W. J. Moscrop, and tenders invited for the administration block in 1925, awarded to the local building contractors, G. Dougill & Son. The foundation stone was laid in June 1926 by Lord Daryngton.

Ward blocks and operating theatres were built in the early 1930s, including the Sinclair Ward for children, and for a new boiler house and mortuary. An official opening was held in May 1933, after which thoughts turned to building an outpatients’ department and designs commissioned from C. W. Milburn, architect. By 1946 the hospital had 196 beds, in a series of linked buildings that sprawled across the site. Further additions were made by the NHS between 1948 and 1971 before a major reconstruction on the site took place in the 1970s-80s, preserving the original administration block but little else.

Darlington Union Workhouse (Feetham Infirmary, East Haven Hospital) demolished NZ 300 142 BF102201

The workhouse in Yarm Road was built to replace a much older institution, established in the Bishop’s Palace in 1730. A competition for a new building was held in 1866 which attracted 18 entries, comprising some 116 drawings. The guardians consulted a London architect before making their selection, awarding Charles J. Adams of Stockton on Tees the first prize. (G. Styan of York came second and R. B. Dixon of Darlington came third.) Accommodation was provided fro 250 inmates and 50 vagrants. It was built between 1867 and 1870; the building contract was awarded to Joseph McCormick on his tender of £11,799, though additional works brought the total to over £12,000.

In 1896 new offices for the Board of Guardians were built on the corner of East Street and Poplar Road to designs by George Gordon Hoskins. Additions to the workhouse were proposed in 1910-13, for whom Pallister and Son of Crook in County Durham were the architects, which seems to have included infirmary accommodation, including for ‘short period lunatics’. Around this time land was acquired to the north-east on which new buildings for tramps were erected (to the rear of properties facing Bright Street). Children were accommodated in the workhouse until at least 1910 but subsequently a girls’ home was built in Eastbourne Road, and a boys’ home at Dodmire.

During the First World War the workhouse was renamed ‘Feethams Infirmary’ and took sick and wounded servicemen. After the war it became known as the Municipal Hospital, and became a Public Assistance institution in the 1930s and alterations made to modernise the hospital accommodation. By 1938 it provided 150 beds, 18 of which were for TB. By the 1950s the former workhouse had become a home for the elderly, renamed ‘East Haven’. It had been demolished by the mid-1980s, after a new home was built in the later 1970s called the Lawns in Whinfield Road to the south of East Haven. Mayflower Court now stands on the site of the old workhouse.

For further information see workhouses.org.

Greenbank Hospital (Darlington Hospital and Dispensary; Darlington Hospital) NZ 285 152 102195

Built as a replacement for the Russell Street Hospital (see below) in 1883-4 to designs by George Gordon Hoskins, a former assistant to Alfred Waterhouse. The site was purchased in 1882 for £1,661, and had been part of the estate belonging to Greenbank House. The foundation stone of the new hospital was laid in October 1883. Just over a year later, in December 1884, the hospital was opened although an official ceremony did not take place until February 1885. A children’s ward was added in 1894-7 with 12 beds, and further extensions were carried out in 1902-5. This increased the accommodation to 70 beds, and provided a new operating rooms with separate anaesthetic room – funded by a donation from James Edward Backhouse in 1901.

Following the Local Government Act of 1929 Greenbank Hospital was sold to Darlington Corporation becoming a maternity hospital – re-opening after refurbishment in February 1936. As well as a 30-bed hospital it provided clinics and maternity and child welfare services. In 1948 the hospital was transferred to the NHS, and a 60-bed geriatric unit added in 1972.

Russell Street Hospital (Darlington Hospital and Dispensary) demolished NZ 291 148 BF102202

The Society of Friends established a fund for an accident and fever hospital in March 1863, due to the increasing number of accidents in the newly opened iron and engineering works in Darlington. The foundation of a hospital was also intended as a memorial to the marriage of the Prince of Wales. The site was donated by John Pease – son of Edward Pease the ‘Railway Father’ – together with £300 towards the cost of construction. Plans were drawn up by John Row, architect, providing for 24 beds. The hospital opened in 1865 initially for men only, for treating accident cases and fever patients. In 1867 a women’s ward was provided.

The accommodation was proving inadequate by the mid 1870s. That and the noxious smells from the adjacent tallow factory, prompted a move to a new site in Greenbank Road in the mid-1880s (see Greenbank Hospital above). The Russell Street hospital closed in 1884, the premises subsequently becoming the local Conservative Club. The site was cleared in the 1960s for road improvements with the construction of St Cuthbert’s Way.

DURHAM

Dryburn Hospital NZ 263 437 102223 (demolished)

Built as an emergency hospital in the early years of the Second World War under the Emergency Medical Scheme. The site had been purchased by Durham County Council in the early 1930s with the intention of building a hospital here, for which plans had been drawn up and tenders sought in 1939, but the outbreak of war halted further progress. The standard hutted war-time hospital passed to the NHS in 1948 and served as a general hospital until 2001 with the opening of the University Hospital of North Durham, built in the northern part of the site.

Durham County Hospital NZ 267 427 102220 (part demolished)

The County Hospital closed in 2010 and in 2017-18 the main building was converted into student accommodation and renamed Rushford Court.

Durham County Hospital was built in 1850 to designs by William Thompson. The hospital originated in a dispensary established in Saddler Street in 1785. The dispensary’s success led to the opening of an Infirmary for the Sick and Lame Poor of the County of Durham in 1793 on the south side of Allergate. This seems to have been a purpose-built hospital on the site of a house and garden owned by Thomas Wilkinson. By the mid-nineteenth century larger premises were needed and funds raised to build the new county hospital on an open site further out of the city. A convalescent ward was added in 1867, and further extensions built in 1886, to designs by the local architect C. H. Fowler. The latter provided a dispensary and outpatients’ department; a service block with laundry, mortuary and staff accommodation; and two new wards. The finances of the County Hospital were improved after 1902 when a contributory scheme was established from local workers, administered by a Workmen’s Committee. Some of the funds were used to provide a convalescent home in Harrogate which opened in 1905.

Further additions included a nurses’ hostel and operating theatre in 1914. After the war a more comprehensive scheme of modernisation and extension was drawn up by the London architects E. T. and E. S. Hall, but were not carried out. Later the nurses’ home was extended and a new outpatients’ department and additional wards were built in 1938-9, erected to designs by Cordingley and McIntyre of Durham. The wing was named the Rushford Wing to commemorate Councillor Mrs H. H. Rushford, the name perpetuated in the present student accommodation.

St Margaret’s Hospital (Durham Union Workhouse; Crossgate Hospital) NZ 268 424 102221 (partly demolished)

Durham Union Workhouse was built in 1837. It was described in William Fordyce’s History of Durham published in 1857: `The house is a plain stone building, and contains ten rooms used as sleeping apartments, a dining-hall, which is also used as a chapel, a room for the use of the Board of Guardians, rooms for the sick, receiving wards, kitchens, pantry and other requisite apartments; suitable school-rooms are also in the course of erection.  The building is arranged to contain 125 inmates, besides a portion distinctly set apart for the separate use of vagrants’. 

University Hospital of North Durham, NZ 262 439

Built on the site of Dryburn Hospital, this acute general hospital opened in 2001, one of the first PFI hospitals signed off in England, built by Consort Healthcare (Durham) Limited, a consortium owned by Balfour Beatty and the Bank of Scotland. The foundations stone was laid by Frank Dobson, then Health Secretary, in 1999. Proposals for a new hospital to centralised services in the area had been in the pipeline since at least 1991. [Source: Felicity Lawrence, The Guardian, 23 July 2001 online.]

EASINGTON

Thorpe Hospital (Easington Rural District Infectious Diseases Hospital; Thorpe Isolation Hospital) NZ 418 426 102339 (demolished)

Easignton Rural District Infectious Diseases Hospital was erected in 1897 to the south-west of Little Thorpe, south of Easington, replacing the Mill Smallpox Hospital. It seems to have been of ‘temporary’ construction – probably of timber and with a corrugated iron roof, of the type supplied by Humphreys of Knightsbridge and Spiers & Company of Glasgow. More permanent buildings were erected in 1904 in their place, comprising a lodge, two ward blocks and a service block, designed by Farthing and Dunn of Newcastle. Extensions were built around 1913-14, Hugh Hedley, architect, Sunderland, providing the designs. The bed compliment was increased from 24 to 58.

Further additions after the First World War included an observation block in about 1924. It remained in use as an isolation hospital until the immediate post-war years when demand for maternity beds saw the buildings re-allocated for that purpose by 1950 and the hospital renamed the Thorpe Maternity Hospital. Timber huts were added accommodating an ante-natal clinic and a recreation building. It closed in 1992 and the buildings cleared. The site is now open farmland to the north of Peterlee.

GREENCROFT

Maiden Law Hospital (Lanchester Joint Isolation Hospital) NZ 166 487 102214

HEIGHINGTON

Aycliffe Hospital (School Aycliffe Mental Colony) NZ 261 234 102196

LANCHESTER

Lanchester Sanatorium NZ 177 498 102364

Lanchester Union Workhouse NZ 164 475 102218

Langley: Langley Park Hospital (Lanchester JHB Infectious Diseases Hospital) NZ 208 445 102671

LOW DINSDA1.E

Dinsdale Park Retreat NZ 342 121 102412

MARWOOD

Barnard Castle Fever Hospital (Barnard Castle Infectious Diseases Hospital) NZ 052 182 102198

MIDDLETON ST GEORGE

Felix House Private Sanatorium NZ 345 131 102300

Middleton Hall Mental Hospital (now Middleton Hall Nursing Home) NZ 358 132 102299

Ropner Convalescent Home NZ 340 130 BF102526. Two-storey, brick built convalescent home, opened in 1893 for men, women, boys and girls over the age of 9 years opened in 1893. Dormer windowns in roof. 65 beds for two hundred patients.

SEAHAM

Seaham Hall Sanatorium (now Seaham Hall Nursing Home) NZ 410 505 102369

Seaham Infirmary NZ 429 496 102425

SEDGEFIELD

Sedgefield Community Hospital (Winterton EMS Hospital; Sedgefield General Hospital) NZ 360 311 102212

Sedgefield Institution (Sedgefield Union Workhouse) NZ 353 286 102205

Winterton Hospital (Durham County Lunatic Asylum; Winterton Mental Hospital) NZ 356 306 102204

Winterton Hospital, South View (Sedgefield RDC Isolation Hospital) NZ 355 298 102234

Winterton Hospital, Ward 40 (Sedgefield RDC Isolation Hospital) NZ 360 313 102233

SHINCLIFFE

Sherburn Hospital (Christ’s Hospital) NZ 308 416 102239

Spennymoor: Spennymoor UDC Isolation Hospital (now The Gables) NZ 251 327 102206

STANHOPE

Horn Hall Hospital (Durham County Consumption Sanatorium; Stanhope Sanatorium) NY 989 392 102211

STANLEY

South Moor Hospital (South Moor and Craghead Welfare Fund Hospital; Holmside and South Moor Hospital) NZ 200 515 102215

WITTON GILBERT

Earl’s House Hospital (Earl’s House Sanatorium) NZ 251 451 102222

WOLSINGHAM

Holywood Hospital (Durham County Sanatorium; Holywood Hall Sanatorium) NZ 073 383 102670

Leazes House Sanatorium NZ 069 374 102669