Leicestershire

ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH

Ashby-de-la-Zouch and District Hospital (Ashby-de-la-Zouch and District Cottage Hospital) SK 363 168 100785 part demolished

Ashby and District Cottage Hospital on the 1901-2 revised OS map, National Library of Scotland CC-BY (NLS)

The cottage hospital was originally built in 1897 and was considerably extended over time. By the the early 1940s it was being run almost entirely by local practitioners. A surgeon from Burton-on-Trent latterly served as a consultant carrying out most of the routine surgery. Emergency cases were mostly sent to one of the hospitals in Burton or Derby. It was taken over by the NHS in 1948 and continued to function as a local hospital, with various fairly modest additions, internal modernisation and some replacement windows. In about 2006 it was no longer considered fit for purpose and in 2017 planning permission was granted for the redevelopment of the site, with the retention of the older parts of the hospital and demolition largely of the post-war additions to the rear.

CHARNWOOD

Charnwood Forest Convalescent Home (Charnwood Hall, Loughborough Convalescent Home), Nanpantan SK 511 161

Postcard of the Convalescent Home, Loughborough

The foundation stone of was laid on 2 August 1893 for a purpose-built convalescent home designed by the Loughborough architect, George H. Barrowcliff. A convalescent home for Loughborough patients had first been established in rented rooms in a cottage at Woodhouse Eaves in 1875. Its success led to the opening of a second convalescent home on Brand Hill which opened in 1879, intended for Leicester patients. The two homes were merged in 1883 from which time they were officially known as Charnwood Forest Convalescent Homes.

Charnwood Forest Convalescent Homes, 25-inch OS map revised 1901, CC-BY (NLS)

DESFORD

Desford Hall Convalescent Home SK 502 023 BF100787. 56-bed convalescent home opened in 1905.

Desford Hall Convalescent Home, from the 25-inch OS map revised in 1914 CC-BY (NLS)

ENDERBY

Blaby Union Workhouse (Enderby House) SP 548 984 demolished

Blaby Union Workhouse from the 25-inch OS map surveyed in 1884-5 CC-BY (NLS)

HINCKLEY

Hinckley and District Hospital (Hinckley Cottage Hospital) SP 429 937  100788

Hinckley Cottage Hospital, on Mount Road towards the bottom of the map, 25-inch OS map revised 1901 CC-BY (NLS)

KIBWORTH HARCOURT

Kibworth Hall Hospital (Kibworth Hall) SP 689 952  83762

Kibworth Hall, from the 25-inch OS map revised in 1902

KIRBYMUXLOE

Roundhill Maternity Hospital SK 525 040  100196

The Cliffe became Roundhill Maternity Hospital, and neighbouring Elmsted house the nurses’ home, from the 25-inch OS map revised in 1938 CC-BY (NLS)

LEICESTER

Faire Hospital SK 584 048 100789

The dispensary fronting East Bond Street with hospital blocks to rear, from the 25-inch OS map revised in 1913 CC-BY (NLS)

Fielding Johnson Hospital (Leicester Private Hospital) SK 591 037 102001

Glenfield Hospital SK 555 066

Groby Road Hospital (Leicester Isolation Hospital) SK 565 063 100665 demolished

Groby Road Hospital
Groby Road Hospital photographed in the early 1990s
Groby Road Hospital on the 25-inch OS Map revised in 1901 CC-BY (NLS)
Groby Road Hospital from the 1912 revised OS map, CC-BY (NLS)
Groby Road Hospital and sanatorium from the 1928 revised OS map CC-BY (NLS)

Leicester Frith Hospital (Leicester Frith Institution; Glenfrith Hospital) SK 555 068 BF100818.

Former Leicester Frith Hospital from the OS map revised in 1928 CC-BY (NLS)

Only Leicester Frith House remains of the ‘mental deficiency’ institution developed here. The house had earlier been a ‘house of rest’. The present Glenfield Hospital was built by the NHS on land to the south.

Leicester General Hospital (Leicester Union Infirmary; North Evington Infirmary) SK622 039 100885

Leicester Royal Infirmary (Leicester Infirmary) SK586 035 100289

Leicester Royal Infirmary, photographed in the early 1990s
Leicester Infirmary from the OS Town Plan of 1885, CC-BY (NLS)
Leicester Infirmary from the 25-inch OS map revised in 1927-8, CC-BY (NLS)

Towers Hospital (Leicester Borough Asylum) SK 618061 100792

Westcotes Maternity Hospital (Westcotes Grange) SK 573 039 100790

LOUGHBOROUGH

Lougborough General Hospital (Loughborough and District General Hospital and Dispensary) SK 538 197 100784

Regent Hospital (Loughborough Union Workhouse) SK 525 204 100714

LUTTERWORTH

Lutterworth Cottage Hospital (Fielding Palmer Cottage Hospital) SP 547 847 100711

MARKET BOSWORTH

Bosworth Park Infirmary (Bosworth Park) SK 408 033 100775

MARKET HARBOROUGH

Market Harborough and District Hospital (Market Harborough Cottage Hospital and Nursing Association) SP 729 871 100779 demolished

Market Harborough Cottage Hospital from the 25-inch OS map revised in 1928 CC-BY (NLS)

The hospital closed in about 2017 and was demolished after 2018. Rosewood Manor now occupies the site, an assisted living residential block.

St Luke’s Hospital (Market Harborough Union Workhouse) SP 727 882

Market Harborough Workhouse, from the 25-inch OS map surveyed in 1884-1885, CC-BY (NLS)

The original workhouse complex has been demolished, but the later detached infirmary to the north remains part of the present St Luke’s Hospital.

Market Harborough Poor Law Institution from the 1928 revised OS map, CC-BY (NLS)

MARKHELD

Markfield Sanatorium (Leicestershire Sanatorium and Isolation Hospital; now Markfield Institute of Higher Education and Markfield Court) SK 493 088 100659

Former Markfield Hospital, photographed in the 1990s
Former Markfield Sanatorium, photographed in the 1990s
Markfield Sanatorium and isolation hospital, OS map 1955, CC-BY (NLS)

MELTON MOWBRAY

Framland Nursing Home (Melton and Belvoir Joint Isolation Hospital; Framland Hospital) SK 752 208 100666

Former Framland Hospital, 25-inch OS map revised 1928 CC-BY (NLS)

Melton and District War Memorial Hospital (Wyndham Lodge) SK 752 185 100780

Melton War Memorial Hospital, 1928 revised OS map, CC-BY (NLS)

Wyndham Lodge remains, but the rest of the extended hospital has been demolished and the site developed for housing around 2022-3.

Melton Mowbray Hospital SK 759 192

NHS hospital built to the east of the former St Mary’s Hospital probably in the 1980s-90s.

St Mary’s Hospital (Melton Mowbray Union Workhouse) SK 759 193 100713

Melton Mowbray Union Workhouse, surveyed 1883-4, CC-BY (NLS)

MOUNTSORREL

Glenfrith Hospital (Barrow upon Soar Union Workhouse) SK 586 142 largely demolished

Barrow upon Soar Union Workhouse, from the 25-inch OS map surveyed in 1883

Barrow upon Soar Workhouse between 1838 and 1840 at a cost of £6,400. It could accommodate 300 inmates. The architect was William Flint who also designed Leicester Union Workhouse. The layout of the workhouse was based on Sampson Kempthorne’s square plan model published by the Poor Law Commission in 1835.

Barrow upon Soar poor law Institution from the 1928 revised OS map CC-BY (NLS)

In 1886, additional men’s vagrants wards were erected followed by an additional block for female vagrants in 1892. In 1911, tenders were taken for general alterations to the workhouse and in 1913 for alterations to the infirmary. Under the NHS it was renamed Glenfrith Hospital (the name also used for the former Leicester Frith Hospital – see above). All that remains of the original buildings is a single-storey brick entrance block now converted to residential use

Mountsorrel Cottage Hospital and Convalescent Home SK 581 147 100781

The cottage hospital in Mountsorrel, from the OS map revised in 1901 CC-BY (NLS)

NARBOROUGH

Carlton Hayes Hospital (Leicestershire and Rutland County Asylum; Narborough Asylum) SP 537 984 100791 demolished

Former Carlton Hayes Hospital from the 1914 revised OS map CC-BY (NLS)

OAKHAM

Catmose Vale Hospital (Oakham Union Workhouse) SK 862 093 100712 part demolished

Oakham Union Workhouse from the OS map surveyed in 1902 CC-BY (NLS)

Rutland Memorial Hospital (Rutland Memorial Cottage Hospital) SK 854 089 100668

Rutland Hospital, photographed in the 1990s
Rutland Hospital from the OS map surveyed in 1928 CC-BY (NLS)

WOODHOUSE

At various times there have been four convalescent homes to the south of Woodhouse Eaves. They all seem to have been purpose built except Empitts House (Hemp Pitt Hill House on the 1960s map below).

The convalescent cluster south of Woodhouse Eaves, from the OS map published in 1966 CC-BY (NLS)

Charnwood Forrest Convalescent Home for Children (now Charnwood House) SK 532 138

Charnwood Convalescent Home for Children, from the 25-inch OS map revised in 1901, CC-BY (NLS)

Empitts Convalescent Home SK 532 137 BF100786. Eighteen bed convalescent home opened in 1920.

Swithlands Convalescent Home (now Swithland Court) SK 533 134 BF100782. Fifty bed convalescent home. Opened in 1912 in connection with the Leicester Royal Infirmary.

Swithlands Convalescent Home for women, from the 1928 revised OS map CC-BY (NLS)

Zachary Merton Convalescent Home SK 532 136 BF100783 demolished. Convalescent home of 1934 by Keay and Haird.