Gransha Hospital was a health facility in Clooney Road, Derry, Northern Ireland. The site is managed by Western Health and Social Care Trust.
| Gransha Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Western Health and Social Care Trust | |
 Part of the old Gransha Hospital | |
  Location in Northern Ireland | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Clooney Road, Derry, Northern Ireland |
| Coordinates | 55°00′55″N 7°16′46″W / 55.0154°N 7.2794°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland |
| Type | Community |
| History | |
| Opened | 1905 |
History
editThe facility was commissioned to replace the aging Londonderry County Asylum on Strand Road, which had become overcrowded.[1][2]
The first sod was cut for the new building on Clooney Road on 1 June 1903. It was designed by Matthew Alexander Robinson in the Victorian style, built in brick with a cement render finish and was completed in May 1905.[3]
After joining the National Health Service in 1948,[4] the facility evolved to become the Stradreagh Hospital.[5]
Two gate lodges were added in the 1960s.[6] Following the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline and almost all buildings in the old hospital were closed by December 2011.[7]
The main building of the old hospital was occupied by Oakgrove Integrated College on a temporary basis from 1992[8] until the college moved into modern purpose-built accommodation in 2004.[9] It was subsequently left to decay and was badly damaged in a serious fire in March 2016.[10]
Current facilities
editThe following modern facilities have been established at Gransha Park, the site of the old hospital:
- Grangewood Hospital, which was designed by Avanti Architects in collaboration with Kennedy Fitzgerald and built by Heron Brothers at a cost of £10.8 million, was completed in November 2012.[11][12] The 30-bed hospital provides inpatient acute mental health care services.[13]
- Lakeview Hospital, which was built at a cost of £4.8 million, was completed in October 2005.[14] The 43-bed facility provides assessment and treatment for people with learning and mental health problems.[14]
- Waterside Hospital, which dates back to the 1970s,[15][16] was partially refurbished in 2014.[17] The facility provides services for elderly people including dementia sufferers.[17]
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Lakeview Hospital -
Waterside Hospital
References
edit- ^ "Londonderry County Asylum". Hansard. 13 June 1895. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "If stones could speak: The hidden and traumatic history of Gransha Hospital in Derry". Derry Now. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
- ^ "Co. Derry, Gransha, District Lunatic Asylum (new)". Dictionary of Irish Architects. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "Gransha Hospital, Londonderry". National Archives. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "Huge blaze at old hospital 'was deliberate': Fire Service". Belfast Telegraph. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ "Derry/Londonderry To Limavady". Marks of Time. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "Gransha psychiatric hospital will soon be consigned to history". Belfast Telegraph. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "Oakgrove Integrated College". Education Base. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "And the Walls Come Tumbling Down". Education Week. 6 August 2003. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "Firefighters tackle major blaze at Londonderry disused hospital". Belfast Telegraph. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "Grangewood mental health crisis unit officially opened". Avanti Architects. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "Health contract for Heron Bros". Construction Index. 21 January 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "Health minister officially opens new £10.8m Grangewood Hospital at Gransha". 17 December 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Specialist hospital opens doors". BBC. 31 May 2006. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "New Hospitals". Hansard. 5 March 1991. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "Hospitals (Ward Clerks)". Hansard. 20 January 1981. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Patients to benefit from newly refurbished dementia care ward at Waterside Hospital". Derry Daily. 2 October 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2020.