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Dechmont, Bangour Village Hospital, School
Psychiatric Hospital (20th Century), School (20th Century)
Site Name Dechmont, Bangour Village Hospital, School
Classification Psychiatric Hospital (20th Century), School (20th Century)
Canmore ID 248458
Site Number NT07SW 18.25
NGR NT 02714 70830
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/248458
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Ecclesmachan
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
Single storey brick and render building with piended slated roof and two bay windows facing South. Brick chimneys to East and West.
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.
