Houghton-le-Spring, Southern Hospital for Infectious Diseases

HER Number:
6057

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Houghton-le-Spring, Southern Hospital for Infectious Diseases

Place:
Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet:
NZ34NW

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:
Specialist Hospital

Site Type: Specific:
Infectious Diseases Hospital

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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:
3400

Northing:
4839

Grid Reference:
NZ34004839

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; Archaeological Services University Durham, 2011, Southern House Farm, Rainton Bridge, Tyne and Wear - Archaeological Assessment