Southern Hospital for Infectious Diseases
Southern Hospital for Infectious Diseases
HER Number
6057
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Southern Hospital for Infectious Diseases
Place
Houghton-le-Spring
Map Sheet
NZ34NW
Class
Health and Welfare
Site Type: Broad
Hospital
Site Type: Specific
Infectious Diseases Hospital
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. The hospital was converted into farm buildings after 1948, was modified as part of this change of use, and was demolished c.1990. Foundations for the buildings are still present on the site. It is likely that the strucutre was a wooden construction on a concrete base
Easting
434000
Northing
548390
Grid Reference
NZ434000548390
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; Archaeological Services University Durham, 2011, Southern House Farm, Rainton Bridge, Tyne and Wear - Archaeological Assessment