Building Name

Accrington Victoria Cottage Hospital Whalley Road

Date
1896 - 1898
Street
Whalley Road
District/Town
Accrington
County/Country
Lancashire, England
Work
New Build

The Accrington Victoria Cottage Hospital, in Whalley road, built in commemoration of Her Majesty’s Jubilee, is a structure of local red plastic (Accrington) brick with Yorkshire stone dressings, in the Renaissance style, from designs by Messrs Haywood and Harrison, architects, of Accrington. There are male and female wards for 16 beds and 2 cots, with matron’s sitting room, bath rooms, nurses’ rooms, and a Board room. The operating theatre, with anaesthetic and receiving rooms, are in the rear, and the kitchen and sculleries are separated from the main building by ventilated lobbies. On the ground floor are also a ward kitchen, dispensary, stores and splint rooms. [Kelly's Directory of Lancashire (1905)]

Cottage hospital, built between 1896 and 1898 to designs by Haywood and Harrison. The hospital comprises of a two-storey block and one storey wards to the east and west. Altered in 1908 to designs by Haywood and Harrison. Between 1926 and 1928 a nurses' hostel and an outpatients department was added. Later, between 1937 and 1938 it became a general hospital.