Homelands Hospital © DCC 2008


Homelands Hospital © DCC 2008


Homelands Hospital © DCC 2008


Homelands Hospital © DCC 2008

Historic Building recording was conducted in 2007 in advance of the redevelopment of the Homelands Hospital Site.

Using documentary research and historic maps, the work was able to show that before the construction of Homelands Hospital in 1903 the site consisted of open fields. The site was used for health care until its closure in December 2004 since which time the site has been unoccupied.

The Hospital first appears on the third and forth edition Ordnance Survey maps. Homelands Hospital was originally a fever hospital, an early form of infectious disease hospital. This explains the somewhat isolated position of the complex. It was believed at the time that the best way to treat diseases such as tuberculosis, typhus and smallpox was to move sufferers away from
others to a more rural site where fresh air would be the best form of therapy.

The building have had some later additions and alterations, however, the style and quality of the buildings are typical of that used for municipal buildings of the era. The majority of period features within the buildings have either been lost or covered by modern surface finishes, though some period features remain.