Ladysbridge Hospital | |
Location: | Banff |
Region: | Aberdeenshire |
Country: | Scotland |
Healthcare: | NHS Scotland |
Type: | Psychiatric hospital |
Speciality: | Psychiatry |
Emergency: | No |
Founded: | 1865 |
Closed: | 2003 |
Map Type: | Scotland Aberdeenshire |
Coordinates: | 57.6627°N -2.5904°W |
Ladysbridge Hospital was a mental health facility near Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The former hospital is a Category B listed building.
The hospital, which was designed by Alexander Reid in the Tudor Revival style, opened as the Banff District Asylum in May 1865.[1] A separate facility for female patients, briefly known as Woodpark Succursal Asylum, was built in June 1880 but was later fully amalgamated with the main asylum.[2] An additional villa for male patients was completed in 1903.[1] The asylum became Ladysbridge Mental Hospital in the 1920s and joined the National Health Service as Ladysbridge Hospital in 1948.[3] A recreation hall was added in the 1960s.[1]
After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in May 2003.[1] The original main building was subsequently converted into terraced housing as "Ladysbridge House" within a larger development known as "Ladysbridge Village".[4]