AUSTWICK

Harden Bridge Hospital (Settle Rural District Infectious Diseases Hospital) SD 762 676 102071 (now Dalesbridge Campsite)

Built in 1905-8 to designs by T. A. Foxcroft, the sanitary engineer to Settle Rural District Council, with accommodation for 25 patients. Originally comprised a two-storey administration block, two ward blocks, stable, laundry, mortuary and discharge block. The admin block is dated 1907 on the gable. The buildings are of stone with Welsh slate roofs. The western ward block was a variation on the Local Government Board’s Plan B of 1888-92 and Plan D of 1888. The East block was originally the Scarlet Fever Pavilion and was based on the LGB Plan C of 1900 (re-issued until 1921). Under the NHS the hospital developed into a geriatric unit, with a day room added between the two ward blocks in 1965. It closed in 1990. [Information from RCHME Hospital Report by Ian R. Pattison, 1992, in Historic England Archive reference BF 102071.]

BEDALE

Mowbray Grange Hospital (Bedale Union Workhouse; Mowbray Grange Sanatorium) SE 269 879 102053 (now converted to apartments, listed Grade II)

Built in 1839 for 100 paupers, though seldom reaching its capacity. It was designed by John and William Atkinson of York, who also designed workhouses for Beverely, Easingwold, Goole, Guisborough, Howden, Pocklington, Skirlaugh and York.

In 1933, after the workhouse had passed to North Riding County Council, it was converted into a sanatorium for TB patients. Alterations were carried out to designs by the Council Architect, J. L. Coverdale. It opened with 30 beds in 1937, renamed Mowbray Grange Sanatorium. With the decline in TB cases in the 1950s-60s it became Mowbray Grange Hospital, but closed and was sold in 1991. [Information from RCHME Hospital Report by Ian H. Goodall, c.1992 in Historic England Archive, reference BF 102053 and Workhouses.org.]

CLIFTON (WITHOUT)

Clifton Hospital (North and East Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum) SE 582 537 BF 92384 (original buildings largely demolished, with a new hospital built on part of the site.)

Opened in 1847 as the pauper lunatic asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire. The decision to build an asylum was taken in 1845 and the design provided by Scott & Moffatt, with some resemblance to their contemporary workhouses. It originally provided accommodation for 144 patients. Extensions in 1851 included two wings with a further 100 beds. In the same year a fire destroyed the original laundry.

Overcrowding induced the East Riding to build an asylum of their own, which opened in 1871 in Beverley. At the York asylum a detached chapel was built in 1873, and a new annexe in 1889. A house for the Medical Superintendent was built in 1929. The nurses’ home was added around the same time.

EASINGWOLD

Claypenny Hospital (Easingwold Union Workhouse; Claypenny Colony) SE 534 704 BF 100863 (largely demolished apart from the original workhouse building which has been converted to apartments – Cedar Place – and is Listed Grade II)

Another of the workhouses constructed to designs by J. B. & W. Atkinson, built in 1837-8 for 130 paupers. After transfer to North Riding County Council in 1930 the buildings were adapted into a ‘mental deficiency’ hospital and renamed Claypenny Colony in 1934. Additions were made to provide purpose-built accommodation, until the capacity of the hospital reached 400 patients. It closed in 1993. [Records of Claypenny Hospital are held in the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York.]

St Monica’s Hospital (St Monica’s Cottage Hospital) SE 530 694 BF 102560 (Extant and still an NHS hospital in 2026)

Founded as the Easingwold and District St Monica’s Cottage Hospital to serve the parishes in the Easingwold Rural District, it was built with funds donated by Mrs Katherine Love of The Hawkhills. The Hawkhills estate had been acquired by Joseph Horatio Love, a Durham Colliery owner, in 1873. Mrs Love remained the Lady President of the Hospital into the1920s. the hospital was funded by subscriptions and also fees paid by patients towards their care.

The hospital was constructed to designs by Wood & Ainslie, architects and opened around 1894. It was designed to contain just six beds originally, three for men and three for women. It was situated on the eastern edge of Easingwold on a site that sloped to the south, facing the main road through the village. It was built in red brick with half timbering in mock-Tudor style, with a homely domestic appearance typical of cottage hospitals. In addition to the patients’ accommodations the main building housed servants and matron, kitchens, and surgery or operating-room.

After transfer to the NHS in 1948 the bed complement was increased to eight, then nine in the early 1950s. Alterations, repairs and modernisation was undertaken in 1955, a day room added in 1967, and a physiotherapy unit in 1970. In the early 1990s a new occupational therapy unit and extension were built, necessitating the demolition of the 1960s day room and one ward. The new buildings were opened in October 1993. By 1997 the hospital had 12 short-stay beds. [Records of the hospital are held in the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York.]

EMBSAY WITH EASTBY

Eastby Sanatorium and Sanatorium School (Bradford Union Sanatorium) SE 025 550 102376 (partly demolished)

Built in 1902-3 by the Bradford Guardians as a sanatorium for consumptives with stone-built admin block and temporary timber ward and dining room. Frederick Holland of Bradford, engineer and architect to the Board provided the plans, and the foundation stone was laid in November 1902. It was thought to have been the first sanatorium built for paupers by a poor law union. Additions to the site included two ‘Liegenhallen’ in the grounds by 1907, open sided shelters with beds for patients to take open air treatment. By 1924 it had become a sanatorium and school, taking boys aged between four and sixteen with tuberculosis. The sanatorium closed during the Second World War, and all but the administration building demolished. The admin block became Fell house, and more recently divided into apartments with a caravan park laid out on the surrounding grounds, Felside Grange built on the east side of the site. [Builder, 15 Nov. 1902, p.454; 21 Nov. 1903, p.528: The Hospital, 23 July 1904, pp.300-301.]

ESTON

Eston Hospital NZ 557 186 102190 demolished

This small accident hospital was built in 1883-4 to designs by W. H. Blessley for the employees of the Cleveland Iron and Steel Works and Eston Ironstone Mines. It was financed by the deduction of a weekly subscription from the workmen’s wages. From 1905 it was opened to general cases amongst both subscribers and their families.

The original company, Blockow, Vaughan & Company, was taken over by Dorman Long, but the restriction of the hospital services to employees and their families was maintained until at least 1945. The hospital had been extended in 1903-6 to provide a total of 60 beds, and in 1921-22 a nurses’ home was added. It was transferred to the NHS in 1948 and continued in use until 1980. The site was developed for housing (Rothwell Mews), but a memorial plaque to the hospital was set in the boundary railings.

Eston UD Fever Hospital (Eston Sanatorium) NZ 549 195 102664 demolished

The fever hospital was built to the north-west of Eston in 1894-5, the District Surveyor, T. W. Stainthorpe, civil engineer provided the plans. Known as Eston Sanatorium, it had already been demolished by 1929, having been replaced by a new isolation hospital in Flatts Lane (Normanby Hospital, see below). Subsequently the housing around Gofton Place was built on the site. [Northern Weekly Gazette, 3 Nov. 1894, p.1.]

Normanby Hospital (Eston UD Infectious Diseases Hospital) NZ 549 178 102191 largely demolished

Built in 1925-6 to design by H. Cockersoll, engineer for Eston Urban District Council to replace Eston Sanatorium (see above). This hospital was larger, comprising three ward blocks, administration block, lodge adn service block. It provided 38 beds. After transfer to the NHS in 1948 it became a convalescent annexe to North Ormesby Hospital. It closed in 1981.

The administration block was a symmetrical two-storey and attic building, of white-painted render and slate roof. Bay windows flanked the central entrance, each with inscribed stones recording the laying of the foundation stone. One noted that the foundation stone was laid by Councillor J. Hume, Chairman of the Sanitary Committee on 5 August 1925, and that the Medical Officer of Health was John Steele, and the building contractors were H. Coxhead & Co. Ltd. The other noted that Councillor W. Evans, chairman of the Council had also laid the foundation stone, and that C. W. Cockersoll, was the engineer and surveyor , and H. Loxhead & Col Ltd the contractor.

The administration block and lodge were retained but the rest of the site cleared for development. Bankfields Court was built on the site as a home for the mentally handicapped by the Roman Catholic Church, along with the church of St Gregory the Great. More recently, c.2010, the original hospital’s administration block has been demolished (for photos of the admin block see google streetview, April 2009 and October 2010, it had gone by June 2012).

River Tees PSA Floating Hospital NZ 536 233 102662

FILEY

Children’s Convalescent Home (Rotherham & District Childrens’ Convalescent Home; Habershon House), TA 118 784 (demolished)

The Children’s Convalescent Home to the south of Filey appears on the OS map revised in 1909. The building seems to have survived until quite recently – it still appeared on the OS maps of 2015, latterly as Habershon House. Planning permission for demolition was submitted in 2022 to allow for the further expansion of the neighbouring Primrose Valley holiday park.

FULFORD

Fulford Hospital (The Maternity and Fulford Hospitals) SE 606 479 102246 (demolished)

Built during the Second World War as part of the Emergency Medical Scheme and comprising spider blocks of single-storey hutted wards and ancillary buildings.

Naburn Hospital (York City Asylum; York City Mental Hospital) SE 606 477 102260 (demolished)

The York City Asylum was built in 1903-6 to designs by the City Engineer, Alfred Creer. Creer followed the echelon plan that was in favour at this time. It closely followed the plan for Middlesbrough Asylum designed by C. H. Howell and A. J. Wood and built in 1896-8 (see below). York’s Lord Mayor argued that as the plans of recent asylums were published by the Lunacy Commissioners and were readily purchased ‘any gentleman who had the training of an architect could build an asylum’. [Building News, 23 Feb. 1900, p.285.] The echelon plan offered a compact form even for the larger asylums, that nevertheless provided a high standard of accommodation for patients, with distinct pavilions arranged so as to give an unobstructed view over the surrounding gardens and the wider landscape. Here the asylum was relatively small originally, designed for 250 patients initially though this was increased to 362 in the design stage.

The asylum opened on 12 March 1906, having been built at a cost of around £130,000. As was the norm, the female side was larger than the male side, with 210 beds over the 152 provided on the male side distributed in six wards on each side (presumably one per floor of the two-storey linked blocks). The administrative buildings were large enough to allow for expansion up to 500 patients. To the north of the main complex stood a detached chapel – a requirement of the Commissioners in Lunacy. Electric lighting was installed from the start. The estate purchased by York City Council included a farmsteading, and the buildings were renovated and extended to serve the asylum. [Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, 1906, p.422.]

Later additions included nine houses, built in the mid-1920s but the major extension occurred during the Second World War when the hospital was taken over as an emergency hospital and a large hutted annexe built to the north.

Naburn Hospital closed in February 1988 and the site was cleared in 1990. [Sources: RCHME Report by Ian H. Goodall 1993:

GIGGLESWICK

Castleberg Hospital (Settle Union Workhouse; Giggleswick Insdtution) SD 810 638 100864

GRASSINGTON

Grassington Hospital (Grassington Sanatorium) SE 016 635 102041

GUISBOROUGH

Admiral Chaloner Hospital (Guisborough Miners’ Accident Hospital) NZ 616 158 102193 converted to housing

Built in 1873-4. The date 1873 appears on the central gable of the building, with the monogram initials TC and AC in roundals above, and above that a bear with a staff, commemorating Admiral Thomas Chaloner (1815-1884) who had provided premises for the original hospital in the mid-1860s. It was intended to accommodate accident cases from the local mines, and the miners contributed to the hospital’s upkeep with a weekly subscription. The building was enlarged in 1901, and again in 1911. For the latter the architect was the local man, J. W. Clarke. Further extensions were carried out in 1928, when a new oprating theatre and X0ray room were added. I closed in 1982.

Belmont Hospital NZ 619 150 102665 demolished

Seems to have been built after the Second World War, but before the establishment of the NHS by Guisborough Joint Hospital Board. It closed around 1957, although it is still labelled as Belmont Hospital on the OS map published in 1980. Graceland Care Home was built on the site.[Shields Daily News, 4 Jan. 1957, p.10.]

Guisborough Fever Hospital, (Guisborough RDC Isolation Hospital) NZ 623 148 102661 demolished

Guisborough General Hospital (Guisborough Union Workhouse) NZ 614 163 102177

Guisborough Union Workhouse was built in 1838-9 to designs by J. B. and W. Atkinson, architects, of York. It was originally intended to accommodate 130 paupers. The final cost of the building was £2,629. Vagrant wards were added in 1842. Additions in the 1860s and 70s probably included sick wards, and a new casual block was built in 1874. Further extensions were carried out in 1893-4 with a 48-bed infirmary (Thomas Stokes, architect), and 1895 when the casual block was enlarged and altered. A nurses’ home was built in 1912, J. J. Taylor and Minor of Darlington furnishing the plans.

After the local authority reforms of 1929-30 the institution was taken over by North Riding County Council. Plans were put in place for a new 68-bed hospital block on the site along with reconstruction of the main building as part of a larger scheme to redevelop the site as a municipal hospital. Works were ongoing at the outbreak of the Second World War, after which it became an Emergency Hospital under the Emergency Medical Scheme.. The residents were evacuated to make the accommodation available for casualties, but when this proved not to be needed, the institution was instead occupied by military sick patients from Catterick and Whitby.

In 1948 the hospital transferred to the NHS. The pre-war extension plans were revived but building restrictions and lack of funds meant that these were not completed until c.1960.

Hutton Cottage Hospital NZ 590 150 102528

HARROGATE

Harrogate and District General Hospital (Harrogate Infirmary) SE 323 558 102474 (demolished by 2005)

Harrogate District Hospital, Lancaster Park Road SE 317 554

Built in the 1970s to replace the earlier hospital on Knaresborough Road.

Harrogate Infirmary Belford (formerly Avenue) Road (Harrogate Cottage Hospital; Harrogate Infirmary and Dispensary, later St Peter’s School) SE 303 549 102564 (extant, still St Peter’s School in 2024)

Heatherdene Convalescent Home (Sunderland Infirmary Convalescent Home), Wetherby Road,  SE 300 550 BF102571. 

Convalescent home for women and children opened in 1892 in an earlier building. It was founded as a memorial of 183 children who died in the town on 16th June 1883. A new wing built to designs by John Eltringham was added in 1894.

Leeds and District Jewish Convalescent Home, Knaresborough Road SE 3167 5554 (demolished)

Royal Bath Hospital and Rawson Convalescent Home, Cornwall Road, SE 294 551 BF 102567. 

The Royal Bath Hospital was founded in 1824 as a national hospital for the treatment of rheumatic diseases using the mineral waters and baths of Harrogate. It first opened on 6th April 1826 with accommodation for 24 patients. The Rawson Convalescent Home was founded in 1888 when a new building was erected. In 1886 a competition was held with seven architects invited to send in designs to be assessed by the eminent architect Alfred Waterhouse. The designs submitted by Thomas Worthington and J. G. Elgood were selected. [Yorkshire Gazette, 25 March 1826, p.3: The Builder, 12 June 1886, p.847.]

The hospital was officially opened in July 1889 by Prince Albert Victor. The convalescent home was established through funding from Miss Rawson of Nydd Hall, after whom it was named. The hospital was designed for 75 patients and the convalescent home 55, each occupying distinct buildings with the hospital on one side and the convalescent home on the other. [Building News, 26 July 1889, p.129.] A new drainage system was laid down in 1907. A notice in The Hospital stated that the site of the hospital was on reclaimed moorland ‘on very shifty, peaty subsoil’ and that the renovation of the drainage system was ‘attended with great difficulties’.[The Hospital, 16 Feb. 1907, p.364.]

St Andrew’s Police Convalescent Home (Northern Police Convalescent Home) SE 318 553 BF102259. Police convalescent home built in 1901-03 to designs by Chorley, Connon and Chorley. It comprised a two-storey stone house with a three-bay pedimented centre and four-bay in-line wings. The home had a bowling green and cricket ground.

HINDERWELL

Palmer Memorial Hospital (Palmer Memorial Miners’ Accident Hospital) NZ 780 181 102471

KIRKBYMOORSIDE

Adela Shaw Orthopaedic Hospital (Crippled Children’s Hospital; Yorkshire Children’s Orthopaedic Hospital) SE 693 865 102612

KNARESBOROUGH

Knaresborough Hospital (Harrogate and Knaresborough Joint Isolation Hospital; Harrogate, Knaresborough and Wetherby Joint Isolation Hospital) SE 349 555 102655

Knaresborough Hospital (Knaresborough Union Workhouse) SE 351 573 100865

Scotton Banks Hospital (Scotton Banks Sanatorium) SE 335 582 102002

LOFTUS

Skinningrove Miners’ Accident Hospital NZ 710 190 102529

MALTON

Malton, Norton and District Hospital (Malton, Norton and District Cottage Hospital) SE 781 719 102562

Malton Union Workhouse

MIDDLESBROUGH

Acklam Road Hospital (see West Lane Hospital below)

Carter Bequest Hospital NZ 487 179 BF 102175 (part demolished)

The Carter Bequest Hospital was built in 1924-5 to designs by Kitching and Archibald. Thomas Carter of Newport Hill had been a Middlesbrough councillor from 1876 to 1901, then an Alderman from 1901-4 and had served as the Mayor in 1897-8. He bought a piece of land in Cambridge Road in around 1897 with the intention of building a hospital there but the project remained unrealised when he died in 1904. Carter left a bequest of about £40,000 and appointed Trustees to carry out the work, but they were unwilling to make a public appeal for funds preferring to allow the bequest to accumulate. Rising costs after the First World War meant that a far higher sum was required to build and endow the hospital than had been anticipated. By the early 1920s the Trustees had enough funds to establish the Carter Bequest Trust in 1923 and the local architects commissioned to prepare plans.

Tenders were invited in January 1923, with those submitted by W. Pearson & Son of West Hartlepool being accepted. It was largely of two storeys, built of brick with artificial stone dressings and Welsh slate roof with red ceramic ridge tiles. The administration block faces Cambridge Road on the north, and survives in use as a medical group practice. Originally this housed on the ground floor: a large entrance hall; reception rooms; a dining and sitting room for the nurses; office for the matron; a sitting room for the domestic staff; the Board Room; a dispensary and pathology room; kitchens and stores. There was also a ward unit with two single bed wards and one double-bed ward on this floor. Above, on the first floor were bed rooms for the nursing and domestic staffs and a sitting room for the matron.

The shallow V-plan ward block to the south has been demolished. It originally contained four wards each with ten beds and two single bed wards adjoining.Thee wre rooms for the sisters and ward kitchens as well as the usual bathrooms. The wards had access to a two-storey veranda at each of the outer ends of the wings onto which the beds could be wheeled. These are reminiscent of Daveyhulme Hospital (later Trafford General Hospital), being simple brick cages affixed to the ends of the wards. They were later infilled to created sun rooms.

To the south of the ward block was the operating theatre in a single storey block connected by corridor to the main building. It provided a suite of rooms including the operating room itself and separate spaces for anaesthesia, X-rays, and for the surgeon. Behind the theatre was a laundry and behind that a pavilion facing tennis courts and a recreation ground.

Work was completed in October 1925 and the hospital officially opened on 13 January 1926 by Sir Hugh Bell. The main contractors for the building were John Prowd, West Hartlepool, joiners; J. Harrison & Son, Middlesbrough, slaters; Sabey Kirby & Son of Bishop Auckland, plasterers; J. H. Shouksmith of York, plumbers. The heating engineers were W. Richardson & Co of Darlington and the electrical engineers Harrison Bros of Middlesbrough.

By 1938 the hospital had four ten-bed wards and 17 private rooms. It was transferred to the NHS in 1948. Closure was threatened in 1984 but avoided after a strong community protest. However, closure was proposed again a few years later, in 1987. It finally closed in 2015.

Hemlington Hospital (Middlesbrough Smallpox Hospital) NZ 499 136 BF 102174 (demolished)

In 1897-8 a smallpox epidemic in Middlesbrough demonstrated the lack of suitable hospitals for isolating those who contracted the disease. However, it was not until 1900 that Middlesbrough Corporation acquired Belle Vue Farm at Hemlington as a potential site for a hospital. The following year the adjacent Hemlington Grange Farm was also acquired by the Corporation. Temporary timber buildings were erected in that year to serve as a kitchen or cook-house. By 1903 there were three single-storey ward blocks on the site each with a central brick block and corrugated-iron wards, kitchen, laundry mortuary and staff accommodation. The hospital was officially opened on 24 March 1905 alongside additions to West Lane Sanatorium (see below). By then there were three double ward pavilions. In 1908 an administration block was adapted for female patients with tuberculosis.

During the First World War the hospital was taken over for military casualties, latterly for discharged servicemen with tuberculosis. An additional ward for TB patients and one for smallpox patients were provided in 1919. By 1938 the hospital had 55 beds, but was mostly used as a holiday or convalescent home for children when not needed for smallpox. In early years of the Second World War eight timber ward huts were added to the site as part of the Emergency Medical Scheme (W. and T. R. Milburn, architects, drawing up the plans following government guidelines). In 1948 the hospital was transferred to the NHS. Amongst post-war additions were two brick wards opened in 1953. The hospital closed in 1989 and was demolished in 1992.

Middlesbrough General Hospital (Middlesbrough Union Workhouse; Holgate Institution and Municipal Hospital) NZ 485 190 BF 102171 (demolished)

Middlesbrough Maternity Hospital (Middlesbrough Maternity Hospital and Children’s Home) NZ 496 194 BF 102188 (houses extant, now part of the University of Teeside’s student accommodation complex: West Parkside Village)

Officially opened by Lady Calvert on 7 July 1920, the maternity hospital originally occupied a converted house. It was established by Middlesbrough Town Council, in line with its responsibilities following the Maternity and Child Welfare Act of 1918. which had acquired a pair of semi-detached houses in Park Road with a view to establishing a maternity home and a children’s hospital along with sufficient ground round about for future development.

The hospital originally had accommodation for 19 mothers and fifteen infants but in 1930 the children’s ward was closed to meet the demand for maternity beds. In 1934 plans were drawn up for extensions to provide an additional three wards with 20 beds and two single-bed wards, duty rooms, an obstetric ward, isolation block, ante-natal clinic, staff accommodation and laundry. The extension was opened on 6 March 1936 by G. H. Shakespeare, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health.

By the mid-1940s the hospital had 50 maternity beds, six ante-natal beds and three isolation beds. It was transferred to the NHS in 1948, taking over the North Riding Infirmary Nurses’ Home next door as an extension and staff accommodation. The hospital closed in 1985. The western villa and land further west were subsequently acquired as a site for student accommodation for the University of Teeside and their centre for community education in the former house. The eastern villa and adjoining purpose-built extensions became Parkside Community Mental Health Centre, while the former nurses’ home was also disposed of to the University of Teeside and converted into a Halls of Residence. The purpose-built hospital wings were demolished some time after 2015 to make way for a new mental health resource centre. [Sources: the history up to 1948 is based on the RCHME Hospital Report by Ian H. Goodall written in 1992, in Historic England Archives reference: BF 102188.]

North Ormesby Hospital (North Ormesby Cottage Hospital; North Ormesby General Hospital) NZ 507 199 BF 102189 (demolished – a health centre was built on part of the site)

North Riding Infirmary NZ 490 202 BF 102172 (demolished between 2005 and 2015)

North Riding Infirmary Nurses’ Homes NZ 498 193 102297 (Park Road, partly demolished, original houses incorporated in university student hall of residence)

Poole Hospital (Poole Joint Sanatorium) NZ 536 134 102192 (Grey Towers extant, hospital buildings demolished post-1968)

St Luke’s Hospital (Cleveland Asylum; Middlesbrough Mental Hospital) NZ 508 179 102173 (largely demolished, Roseberry Park Hospital built on ground to north and the new South Cleveland District General Hospital – now James Cook University Hospital – built on south part of site)

West Lane Hospital (West Lane Sanatorium, now Acklam Road Hospital) NZ 481 187 102176 (largely demolished)

MOULTON

Morris Grange Nursing Home (Morris Grange; Morris Grange Sanatorium) NZ 223 042 102049

NEWBYAND SCALBY

Cross Lane Hospital (Scarborough Hospital for Infectious Diseases; Scarborough Sanatorium) TA 026 902 102058

Smallpox Hospital (Scarborough Smallpox Hospital; Scarborough Corporation Sanatorium) TA 033 910 102059

NORTHALLERTON

Friarage Hospital (Northallerton Union Workhouse; Northallerton EMS Hospital) SE 371 942 102052

Northallerton Maternity Hospital (Mount Pleasant Emergency Maternity Home) SE 362 947 102566

Rutson Hospital (Northallerton Cottage Hospital) SE 368 942 102051

Sandy Bank Nurses’ Home (Northallerton Isolation Hospital) SE 378 933 102054

REDCAR

Coatham Convalescent Home and Children’s Hospital (Home of the Good Samaritan Convalescent Home; Redcar Convalescent Home), Queen Street, NZ 593 249 BF102527 demolished

Brick-built convalescent home by Dobson, founded in 1861 and extended in 1869. A chapel was built in 1878 designed by G E Street. Children’s Hospital to a design by Norman Shaw added in 1878 and extended in 1883. Demolished in 1951.

Redcar UD Fever Hospital (Neasham’s Hind House; latterly kennels) NZ 587 248 102663 demolished

Stead Memorial Hospital NZ 596 249 102179 demolished

The Doctor Stead Memorial Hospital was formally opened on 26 July 1929 by the Dowager Marchioness of Zetland in a converted house, `Everdon’, the home of F. Arnold Stead which he gave to the people of Redcar as a memorial to his father, the late Dr J. E. Stead, a distinguished metallurgist and President of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1920-1921. 

The house and its neighbours, which were also acquired in or after 1946, were built in 1870. The hospital was transferred to the NHS, and remained in operation until 2010, latterly known as the Stead Primary Care Hospital. (Photographs of it can be seen from April 2009 on Google StreetView.) It has since been demolished and Sand Banks Care Centre built on the site.

RICHMOND

Richmond Cottage Hospital NZ 173 015 102657

Richmond Victoria Hospital (Richmond and District Victoria Hospital) NZ 172 013 102048

RIPON

Ripon and District Hospital (Ripon Dispensary; Ripon Dispensary and Cottage Hospital) SE 309 712 102561

St Wilfred’s Hospital (Ripon and Wath Rural Districts Fever Hospital) SE 314 715 102686

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

Club Union Convalescent Home (Saltburn Convalescent Home), Marine Parade, NZ 661 215  BF102426.  now Saltburn House

Convalescent home designed by Thomas Oliver and opened in 1872. This two-storeyed building is Gothic in style and built of white brick and stone dressings with roofs of Westmorland slate. Founded by the Pease family. Now Saltburn House, and looking a little tired in recent photographs.

Saltburn by the Sea UDC Infectious Diseases Hospital (now Marske End Poultry Farm) NZ 648 212 102365

SCARBOROUGH

Scarborough Cottage Hospital and Convalescent Home (Scarborough Cottage Hospital), Spring Hill Road TA 043 889 BF102056. 

Three-storey, yellow brick cottage hospital designed by William Barry and built in 1869 at the expense of Ann Wright. A wing was added in 1878-9 by David Petch and there were three later additions, the latest by Caleb Petch.

Scarborough Hospital, Scalby Road TA 020 885 BF102047. 

The hospital on Scalby Road was built to replaced the earlier hospital in Friar’s Entry (see below). By the mid-1920s there was a growing need to provide more beds, and although expansion on the existing site was considered, by 1927 the Board of Management had resolved to build a new hospital on a new site. The Board negotiated with Scarborough Corporation to purchase 8 acres on the Woodlands Estate to the west of the town. An appeal for funds had raised £50,000 by 1930, well short of the target of £120,000.

A competition was held in 1932 for a hospital of 140 beds, with consideration to be given to to the potential addition of another 72 beds. At this stage the Board envisaged providing 64 surgical and 24 medical beds, 26 beds for children, 12 for maternity cases and a number of single and twin bedded rooms for paying patients.[The Builder, 21 Oct 1932, pp.670 and 672-3] Hubert M. Fairweather was the assessor, and the London architect Wallace Marchment was awarded the first prize and given the commission. All 128 of the designs submitted were put on display in the Grand Hall of the Spa in Scarborough. Second place had been awarded to Dawson, Oliver and Associates of New York City, third to Heaton Comyn and W. Edward Coker of London and fourth to Lanchester, Lodge and Davis, also of London. The Builder judged the overall standard of design of the submissions to be of high quality, noting that most of the entrants must have had some practice in hospital construction or devoted a good deal of study to the subject.

As the scheme developed following Wallace Marchment’s appointment ideas about the scale of the potential later expansion of the hospital grew from an additional 72 beds to almost twice that number. This entailed the provision of service areas, offices and operating theatres large enough for a hospital of nearer 300 beds. Tenders were advertised early in 1934, Foster and Dicksee being awarded the contract, and the first sod was cut on 11 June 1934, followed by a ceremonial laying of the foundation stone by the president of the hospital on 27 June that year. Work was completed in 1936, with an official opening by the Duke of Kent on 23 October.

The main U-shaped hospital building, nurses’ home and gate lodges were all of brick, in a Dutch modernist idiom, reminiscent of Burnet, Tait and Lorne’s Royal Masonic Hospital, though more pared-back. This is perhaps most evident in the pair of gate lodges on Scalby Road, each a dinky little flat-roofed box with a curved single-storey protruding to overlook the entrance and the pair of tall curved brick plinths baring lamps. The glazing has been replacing, but the lettering looks original or a good replacement in an Art Deco font.

The ward wings extend southwards, the main administrative section and entrance being on the north. Matron’s and house surgeon’s quarters were also in the central section, together with dining rooms and bedrooms for domestic staff. The separate nurses’ home had 60 bedrooms and common rooms as well as teaching rooms. Construction of the main hospital was load-bearing brick with cavity walls on reinforced concrete foundations, chosen to withstand the wind and driving rain on this exposed site. Floors and roofs were reinforced concrete and hollow tiles, with internal partitions either of brick or breeze blocks. The windows were originally steel in wood frames painted white, but like the lodge windows, have been replaced. the entrance hall and main corridor were panelled in terrazzo, elsewhere the walls were generally plastered and enamelled. The ward floors had teak block floors. [Architectural Review, February 1937, vol.81 iss. 483, pp.73-5.]

During the Second World War the bed capacity was increased from 140 to 244 as part of the Government’s emergency measures. This was achieved by increasing the number of beds on the wards rather than by building hutted annexes. Most of this additional accommodation was given over to evacuated chronic sick patients from London hospitals. Also during the war, in 1942, East Ayton Lodge was donated to the hospital as a convalescent home. It was donated by the Dowager Lady Nunburnholme in memory of her son who had died during in the war. It was not immediately used as such, and ended up being leased to North Riding County Council for patients from Clifton Hospital (then named the North Riding Mental Hospital).

Plans for expansion were drawn up after the war by the Board of Management, despite the impending inauguration of the NHS. These included extensions to the nurses’ home and a new boiler house. It may have been hoped that these would be adopted by the newly formed Leeds Regional Hospitals Board. Only minor works were undertaken in the early post-war years, such as the enclosure of the sun balconies. A major extension was added in 1986-8, and since then a Women’s Unit and Midwifery-Led Unit, Radiology and Gastroenterology Departments have been added. Parts of the 1930s building have also been refurbished including A&E and Maple Ward. [Sources: Ian H Goodall, RCHME Report BF 102047 and references given above.]

Scarborough Hospital and Dispensary TA 031 876 Historic England Archives Building File: 102057

A dispensary was established in Scarborough in 1851, initially in a room in the Mechanics Institute in Vernon Road, and from June 1854 at 15 Queen Street. A purpose-built dispensary was erected in 1858-9 in Elders Street, designed by William Barry. The first beds were provided in 1865 for accident cases, and in 1870 the name ‘Scarborough Dispensary and Accident Hospital’ was adopted. Additional beds were squeezed in by converting the boardroom in 1880 and adding a second storey in 1883. Fifteen beds were then available, and the name changed again to ‘the Scarborough Hospital and Dispensary’. In the early 1890s plans were formulated to build a new hospital on a much larger scale. The principal instigator of the scheme was John Dale who had retired to Scarborough and became president of the Hospital in 1891. A site large enough for a hospital with 50 beds but also capable of later expansion was purchased in Friars Entry.

St Mary’s Hospital (Scarborough Union Workhouse) TA 039 888 102055

St Thomas’s Hospital (Royal Northern Sea Bathing Infirmary; Royal Northern Sea Bathing Infirmary and Convalescent Home) TA 045 885 102046

SELBY

Selby Cottage Hospital SE 613 322 102563

Selby War Memorial Hospital SE 607 316 102568

SHERBURN IN ELMET

Sherburn Smallpox Hospital SE 490 330 102660

SKELTON AND BROTTON

Cleveland Cottage Hospital NZ 694 199 102178

Fairfield Hospital (Fairfield House; Fairfield Sanatorium; now Fairfield Manor Hotel) SE 570 556 102656

Skelton Green Miners’ Accident Hospital NZ 657 181 102475

SKIPTON

Raikeswood Hospital (Skipton Union Workhouse) SD 985 520 102070

Skipton Cottage Hospital (Skipton and District Cottage Hospital; Skipton and District Hospital) SD 986 517 102375

Skipton General Hospital (Skipton and District Hospital) SD 989 511 102374

THIRSK

Lambert Memorial Hospital NY 429 820 102050

WHITBY

Eskdale Hospital (Whitby Urban District Infectious Diseases Hospital; now Dalewood House) NZ 908 094 102060

St Hilda’s Hospital (Whitby Workhouse) NZ 902 105 102061

Whitby Cottage Hospital (now Whitby Area Health Office and Clinic) NZ 901 121 102472

Whitby Hospital (Whitby War Memorial Cottage Hospital; Whitby War Memorial Hospital) NZ 897 107 102473

WHIXLEY

Whixley Hospital (Whixley Inebriate Colony; Mid-Yorkshire Institution for the Mentally Defective) SE 444 568 102370

YORK

Bootham Park Hospital (York Lunatic Asylum) SE 600 528 60268

The foundation of the York Asylum dates back to 1772 when fund raising began for this charitable hospital. The eminent local architect John Carr was commissioned to design a suitable building in July 1773 that could house 64 patients with room for future expansion by the addition of two wings extending to the rear. In 1774 the site was purchased, comprising five acres next to Bootham-Bar and shortly afterwards the foundation stone was laid. By that time over £5,000 had been subscribed. The first patients were admitted in November 1777. Although the asylum was designed to admit all social classes, fees were charged for their care.

The original section was just the main front range on the south side (as shown in the photograph above). The asylum was greatly extended over the years. Additions to provide accommodation for a further 25 patients were made in 1788 and a new wing added in 1808. Demand for admission outstripped the accommodation available, leading to overcrowding. The Asylum was also the subject of criticism, the most notorious incident in its early history being the death of one of the patients, Hannah Mills, in 1790. She was a Quaker, and her death prompted the establishment by fellow Quakers of a The Retreat (see below). Concerns about the conditions within the asylum eventually led to an inquiry being held in 1814 which resulted in reforms to the administration as well as alterations to the building. The same year the rear wing was destroyed by a fire. It was replaced in 1817 and the patients’ accommodation re-organised, dedicating the new wing to female patients with male patients in the original part. In 1828 a refractory ward was built away from the main building connected by a long corridor – this was extended in 1852.

[Sources: The Annual Report of the Lunatic Asylum erected at York… 1785: County Asylums website: Administrative history from the Archive.]

Bungalow Hospital (Bungalow Isolation Hospital) SE 614 554 102658

City Hospital (City of York General Hospital) SE 608 532 102296 (largely demolished)

County Hospital (subsequently Divisional Head Office, Yorkshire Water) SE 608 523 102439

The Retreat SE 615 509 60269 (due for conversion to housing from 2022)

Opened in 1796. The Retreat was founded as a hospital for ‘lunatics’ by William Tuke, a Quaker, for fellow Quakers. Tuke was a pioneer of ‘moral management’ and was in part a reaction against the use of restraint for such patients in the nearby York Asylum (Bootham Park).

There was a phased closing of The Retreat with inpatient services ceasing in 2018 and full closure in 2022. The site was then scheduled for development into housing.

St Mary’s Hospital (York Union Workhouse; The Grange Hospital) SE 608 530 60266 (Main section and east range of original workhouse along with later chapel converted to student accommodation)

York Union Workhouse was built in 1847 replacing an earlier workhouse in Marygate. Like many of the workhouses in North Yorkshire it was built to designs by J. B. and W. Atkinson. It was designed to accommodate 300 paupers. Later additions included a chapel, new laundry, kitchens, dining hall and vagrant wards, a nurses’ home, labour yards, porter’s lodge and maternity home. A separate children’s home was built in 1914 fronting Haxby Road with accommodation for 28 children.

In 1930 the institution was taken over by York City Council. By that time the infirmary side had 51 general medicine beds, 28 surgical beds, 41 beds for children, four for maternity, eleven for venereal diseases, four for tuberculosis, 87 for the chronic sick, 29 for mental illnesses, 59 for ‘mental deficiency’ patients, and 91 unspecified hospital beds. In the 1930s plans were made to expand the infirmary with three additional ward blocks. These plans developed into the erection of a separate facility on an adjacent site which opened as the City of York General Hospital in 1942. During the War the new hospital became an emergency hospital as part of the War-time Emergency Medical Scheme.

In 1947 the entire institution was renamed ‘The Grange’. With the inauguration of the National Health Service in 1948 management of the hospital side rested with the NHS but the social care side remained with the City Council, creating a mixed institution known as The Grange Hospital and The Grange House. The hospital side developed as a geriatric unit and was renamed St Mary’s Hospital in 1955. With the building of the new York District General Hospital in the 1970s the health services were reorganised. After the City Hospital closed in 1977 it was re-fitted for geriatric patients, and the patients from St Mary’s transferred there in 1979 – though pressure on space meant that part of St Mary’s was retained for a while (the two ward blocks nearest to the City Hospital). The NHS acquired the whole of the St Mary’s and Grange site the same year. From 1989 services began to be reduced, replaced by community care or centralised at the District General. Over the next few years vacated buildings at St Mary’s Hospital were demolished. Peppermill Court was built on part of the cleared ground as a community unit for the elderly, along with White Cross Court as a community rehabilitation unit for the elderly. The surviving buildings of The Grange had various occupants until it was acquired by the University College of Ripon and York St John and converted into student accommodation. [Source: catalogue entry for the hospital records held at Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York.]

Yearsley Bridge Hospital (York Fever Hospital) SE 616 535 102659

York Dispensary (Gray’s Dispensary) SE 600 510 102565

York Military Hospital (Fulford Military Hospital) SE 608 504 100917