Basic Site Details Name: | Melrose District Asylum | Town, district or village: | Melrose | City or county: | Roxburghshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | B listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Brown & Wardrop won the competition and secured the job, but Richardson attributes the final design to Peddie & Kinnear. It seems likely that the latter produced unsuccessful competition designs, although these have never been traced.
Cost of original building: £46,500.
In his Nomination Paper (1907) George Wilson says that his practice added 3 new blocks.
Only boiler house B listed. | Alternative NamesThe following alternative names are associated with this building/design: | | Name | Current name? | Notes |  | Border Counties Asylum | | |  | Dingleton Hospital | Yes | |  | Roxburgh Asylum | | |
Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes |  | Psychiatric hospital | | |
Street AddressesThe following street addresses are associated with this building: | | Address | Main entrance? | Notes |  | Dingleton Road | Yes | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes |  | 1869 | | Design exhibited | |  | 1869 | 1872 | Build/construction | |  | June 1869 | | Foundation stone | |  | After 1869 | | | Plans to remedy defects drawn up |  | May 1872 | | Opened | |  | 1895 | | | Male hospital block added |  | 1898 | | | Female hospital block added; dining and recreation hall extended |  | 1900 | | | Laundry added |  | 1902 | | | Further work on male hospital |  | 1903 | 1908 | | Extensions, piggeries, etc. |  | 1931 | | | Housing for hospital staff |  | 1936 | | | Housing for hospital staff |  | 1939 | | | Extensions |  | 1977 | | Addition | Boiler House |
PeopleDesign and Construction
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes |  | Cruft, Kitty, Dunbar, John and Fawcett, Richard | 2006 | Borders (The Buildings of Scotland) | | New Haven and London: Yale University Press | p550 |  | Darragh, Alison | 2011 | Prison or Palace? Heaven or Hell? An architectural and social study of the development of public lunatic asylums in Scot | | Unpublished PhD thesis, University of St Andrews | vol 3, pp 110-13 |  | Glendinning, M, MacInnes, R and MacKechnie, A | 1996 | A History of Scottish Architecture | | | p603 |  | Groome, Francis H | | Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-85) | | Edinburgh, London & Glasgow: Thomas C Jack, Grange Publishing Works | |  | Miller, K | 1972 | The Story of a Community: Dingleton Hospital, Melrose, 1872-1972 | | | |  | Richardson, Harriet | N.D. | Scottish Hospitals Survey | | Unpublished typescript (copy in DMW Archive) | Attributes building to Peddie & Kinnear |  | RSA | 1869 | | | | 724 |  | Strang, Charles Alexander | 1994 | Borders and Berwick: An Illustrated Architectural Guide | | | p178 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes |  | Border Advertiser | 17 May 1872 | | | |  | Building News | 29 April 1870 | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes |  | Edinburgh University Library | Anderson Collection (Plans and drawings) | | |  | Galashiels Local History Library | Galashiels Local History Library | | R21/31.4 - 'Dingleton 1872-1972', booklet on centenary of the hospital |  | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 51064 | Boiler house |  | National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO) | William Lambie Moffatt Cash Book 1859-1881 GD 1/412/1 | | p15 |  | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Sydney Mitchell & Wilson Collection | | SMW 1890/28/4 (male hospital); SMW 1890/28/1-3, 5-7 (main block, female hospital and piggeries etc) |  | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | George Wilson: F v19 p89 no 1396, microfolm reel 12 |
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