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Dechmont, Bangour Village Hospital, Occupational Therapy Block 2
Bakery (20th Century), Psychiatric Hospital (20th Century)
Site Name Dechmont, Bangour Village Hospital, Occupational Therapy Block 2
Classification Bakery (20th Century), Psychiatric Hospital (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bakery
Canmore ID 248457
Site Number NT07SW 18.24
NGR NT 03082 70779
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/248457
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Ecclesmachan
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
2 storey main building with pitched slated roof flanked by single storey rendered stone buildings with multiple gables. Modern flat-roof extensions have been added to North and South.
Originally constructed as a bakery - adjacent to the main kitchen complex - within the Bangour Village Hospital. Latterly converted for use as a centre for occupational health therapy.
Bangour Village Hospital is noted as the best surviving example in Scotland of a psychiatric hospital created in the village system of patient care. Accepting its first patients in 1904, the site continued in use as a hospital until 2004 and was twice converted to serve as a military hospital 1915-1922 and 1939-45.
