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View of staff cottages from SE Digital image of D 25701
SC 776748
Description View of staff cottages from SE Digital image of D 25701
Date 28/1/1997
Catalogue Number SC 776748
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Staff cottages, Dingleton Hospital, Dingleton Road, Melrose, Scottish Borders (closed 2001) These charming single-storeyed sandstone cottages, stepped down the road leading to Melrose, were built in 1903 to provide accommodation for staff. The architects were probably Sydney Mitchell & Wilson, and the cottages have timber-bracketed eaves in the style of Mitchell's other additions to the hospital at the same time. Unlike most of the hospital buildings, however, the windows retain their original eight-paned glazing. The cottages were designed to be as attractive as possible as the hospital had great difficulty in recruiting and retaining staff. They were added to a line of existing cottages (right), built as staff residences in 1880. In the early 1880s, partly in response to overcrowding at the asylum, six female pauper patients were 'boarded out' in two of the newly constructed cottages in a very early attempt at alternative care provision. The patients became fully integrated with the members of each family who lived in the cottages, helped with household tasks and daily domestic routines, and were free to come and go as they pleased under minimal supervision. This 'halfway' house proved most successful in the rehabilitation of the patients. Dingleton Hospital, designed by the architects, Wardrop & Brown, opened in 1872 as the District Asylum for Melrose. It provided accommodation for 200 patients from the counties of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk and replaced the private asylum at Milholme House in Musselburgh which had been licensed for pauper lunatics on a temporary basis until the new asylum at Melrose was completed. The site was substantially developed between 1895 and 1905 when a new hospital block for female patients, new recreational and dining facilities, and a new male hospital block were added to designs by the architectural firm, Sydney Mitchell & Wilson. In 1936 a nurses' home, designed by Tarbolton & Ochterlony, was constructed in the grounds. The hospital closed in 2001. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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