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View of staff House to NE from N Digital image of D 25703
SC 785491
Description View of staff House to NE from N Digital image of D 25703
Date 28/1/1997
Catalogue Number SC 785491
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Staff Cottage, Dingleton Hospital, Dingleton Road, Melrose, Scottish Borders, from the north (closed 2001) This cottage, designed by Sydney Mitchell & Wilson, was built in 1903 close to the main hospital gates to provide accommodation for staff. This north elevation is asymmetrical with an unusual arrangement of small-paned windows, and timber-bracketed eaves in the style of Mitchell's other additions to the hospital at the same time. The open bracketed porch adds a point of interest to the façade. The hospital had great difficulty in recruiting and retaining employees, and, in an attempt to attract good staff, built attractive and comfortable housing within the hospital grounds as an incentive. In some cases these cottages were provided rent free along with free supplies of coal for heating, gas for lighting and vegetables from the hospital's kitchen garden. In 1904 when the hospital was supplied with electricity, many of the cottages were wired for electric light. 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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