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View of main block from SE Digital image of D 25690
SC 785496
Description View of main block from SE Digital image of D 25690
Date 28/1/1997
Catalogue Number SC 785496
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Female Wing, Main Building, Dingleton Hospital, Dingleton Road, Melrose, Scottish Borders, from the south-east (closed 2001) This two-storeyed Italianate-style building was designed with timber-bracketed eaves and piended (hipped) roofs. Much of the original detailing, including chimneys and roof ventilators, has been removed although a few windows on the upper floor retain their small-paned glazing. The elegant iron escape staircase that descends from the upper floor is a 20th-century addition. The female wing accommodated all categories of both pauper and private patients in dormitories or single rooms depending of the severity of the patient's mental complaint. Pauper patients were charged £28 per annum (paid by the respective parish council) and private patients were charged rates varying from £30 to £50 per annum. Paying patients were given special privileges, and received the same food as the staff, as well as extra courses and dinner place settings. 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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