Dingleton Hospital
Dingleton Hospital was a mental health facility in Melrose, Scotland. The former boiler house is a Category B listed building.[1]
| Dingleton Hospital | |
|---|---|
![]() The former Dingleton Hospital  | |
![]() Shown in the Scottish Borders  | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland | 
| Coordinates | 55.5906°N 2.7289°W | 
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS Scotland | 
| Type | Psychiatric hospital | 
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No | 
| History | |
| Opened | 1872 | 
| Closed | 2001 | 
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Scotland | 
History
    
The hospital, which was designed by Brown & Wardrop, opened as the Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk District Asylum in May 1872.[2][3] A new female hospital block was completed in 1898 and two new wings, designed by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, were completed in 1906.[2] The facility joined the National Health Service as Dingleton Hospital in 1948.[3] A monolithic concrete boiler house, designed by Peter Womersley, which still dominates the local skyline, was completed in 1977.[1]
After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 2001.[2] The main building has since been converted for residential use as "Dingleton Apartments" within a wider housing development across the former hospital site known as "Trimontium Heights".[4]
References
    
- Historic Environment Scotland. "Chiefswood Road, former Dingleton Hospital boiler house including boundary walls (Category B Listed Building) (LB51064)". Retrieved 25 April 2019.
 - "Dingleton Hospital". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
 - "Dingleton Hospital, Melrose". Lothian Health Services Archive. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
 - "Row erupts over new street names". Southern Reporter. 26 January 2006. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
 
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