Norfolk

ATTLEBOROUGH

Wayland Hospital (Wayland Union Infirmary) TM 030 961 BF100528

*Wayland Hospital photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

AYLSHAM

St Michael’s Hospital (Aylsham Union Workhouse) TG 184 266 100554

*St Michael’s Hospital, photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

*St Michael’s Hospital, main entrance and board room wing, photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

CROMER

Cromer and District Hospital TG 225 414 100469 largely demolished

There was a small cottage hospital in Cromer by 1866, in two converted cottages in Louden Road. The new Cromer and District Hospital was built in 1930-2 to designs by Edward Boardman and Son. It benefitted from the support of Lady Battersea, who donated generously to the building fund and laid the foundation stone. A portrait of her formerly hung in the entrance hall of the hospital.

Lady Battersea had by then long been widowed, her husband Cyril Flower, having died in 1907. He had been an M.P., granted a peerage in 1892 – taking the name Battersea after the couple’s London townhouse on the west end of Oxford Street near Hyde Park. Lady Battersea was born Constance de Rothschild, and spent much of her childhood at the family’s country estate in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire. Lord and Lady Battersea had a holiday home, The Pleasaunce, at Overstrand, near Cromer – hence her connection to local charitable causes and the hospital in particular.

*Plan of Cromer Hospital, formerly displayed at the hospital*

The plan of the hospital comprised three main parts. To the south was the angled ward wing, with two 12-bed wards – one at either end – two single-bedded rooms and a six-bed convalescent ward in the centre. These all gave out onto a verandah on the south side. A corridor to the rear of the wards accessed bathrooms and service rooms. The ward wing was linked by a corridor to the central block, with offices, pharmacy x-ray and surgery in the front portion, and a small paying-patients block at the rear with four single rooms and one double room facing south with french windows opening into the garden.

*Cromer Cottage Hospital, built in 1932, from the OS map revised in 1938 CC-BY (NLS)*

The northern part of the hospital housed the kitchens, staff rooms, stores etc. The hospital was almost all single-storeyed, just the central part of the entrance block rose to an attic storey where bedrooms for nurses were provided.

*The original cottage hospital in Louden Road* *from the OS map surveyed in 1885.* *CC-BY (NLS)*

Fletcher Hospital (Fletcher Convalescent Home), Norwich Road TG 219 414 BF100410.

*Fletcher Hospital, photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

*Fletcher Convalescent Home from the OS map revised in 1927 CC-BY (NLS)*

The former Fletcher Convalescent Home for the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital was built in 1892 to designs by E. Boardman in a Gothic style. Additions between 1892-1920. Built of red brick, with stone dressings to the main fronts and red terracotta dressings to windows.

DITCHINGHAM

All Hallows Country Hospital TM 330 910 100804

EAST DEREHAM

Dereham Hospital (Central Isolation Hospital) TF 992 143 100559

*Dereham Hospital, administration block, photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstad*

GIMINGHAM

Mundesley Hospital (Mundesley Sanatorium) TG 297 365 BF100409

*Mundesley Hospital photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

*Mundesley Hospital, revolving chalets, photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

*Mundesley Hospital, open-sided rest hall, photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

GREAT AND LITTLE PLUMSTEAD

Little Plumstead Hospital (Little Plumstead Mental Deficiency Colony) TG 309 108 100544

GREAT YARMOUTH

Estcourt Hospital (Yarmouth Isolation Hospital) TG 527 086 100448

*Estcourt Hospital, Drake Ward, photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

*Estcourt Hospital, Astley Cooper Annexe, photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

Gorleston Cottage Hospital TM 525 039 100443

Gorleston Isolation Hospital TG 515 032 100449

Northgate Hospital (Great Yarmouth Union Workhouse) TG 524 084 100126

*Northgate Hospital photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

Royal Artillery Barracks Hospital TG 527 059 100214

Royal Hospital (Yarmouth Hospital) TG 526 073 100200

St Nicholas’s Hospital (Royal Naval Hospital) TG 527 064 36915

*Royal Naval Hospital west range with chapel at centre photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

GRESSENHALL

Gressenhall House of Industry (now Museum of Rural Life) TF 974 169 100532

HELLESDON

Hellesdon Hospital (Norwich City Asylum) TG 199 119 100570

David Rice Hospital

HIGH KELLING

Bramblewood Sanatorium Chapel (now All Saints’ District Church) TG 104 398 100563

*All Saints’ District Church, photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

*Interior of All Saints’ District Church, photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

Kelling Hospital (Kelling Sanatorium) TG 097 397 100560

*Kelling Sanatorium, original house, photographed early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

*Kelling Sanatorium, photographed early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

*Kelling Sanatorium, chalet, photographed early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

*Kelling Sanatorium, Horsfall Wing, photographed early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

*Kelling Sanatorium, chapel, photographed early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

Pine Heath Hospital (Children’s Sanatorium for the Treatment of Phthisis) TG 105 397 100561

*Pine Heath Hospital photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

Thornfield Hall Care Home for the Elderly (Voewood; Kelling Place) TG 098 398 BF100562.

*Thornfield Hall Care Home photographed in the early 1990s L. Holmstadt*

An Arts and Crafts butterfly plan country house designed by Edward S Prior and constructed in 1903-4. It is a two storey building constructed of mass concrete, flint, and stone with a pantile roof. The house was originally known as Voewood but was soon changed to Kelling Place, by 1909 this had been changed to Home Place. During the 1920s the house became a convalescent home. In 1987 it became a private residential home known as Thornfield Hall. The house became a private residence in 1999.