1930s cottage hospital, Burnham-on-Crouch Cottage Hospital, Albert Road (EHER 15645)

A small 2-storey rectangular cottage hospital designed in the Georgian style by E.P.W. Cooper and built by 1937. Accident and sun-ray treatment ward on the ground floor. Two 1-bed nursing wards on the first floor.

1999. Essex Hospitals survey. A small two-storey cottage hospital built in around 1937 by local builders J.E. Smith and Sons in a Georgian style to plans provided by E.P.W. Cooper. Entered from Albert Road, the ground-floor contained a spacious hall flanked by a secretary/committee room together with an accident and sun-ray treatment ward; a nurses sitting room and a large kitchen stood to the rear. An open stairwell led up to a large landing at first-floor level from which two single-bed patients wards and two nurses bedrooms could be reached. All the rooms had open fireplaces and access to sanitary and bathing facilities. The five-bay hospital is built of red stocks laid in stretcher bond; the steeply pitched hipped roof is pierced by two large square stacks capped with courses of tile. Large sash windows with flat tile heads are present on the ground-floor, although Bulls-eye windows turned in tile flank the Crouch Road service entrance and rear elevation. The main entrance is positioned centrally and has double doors, tile jambs and a flat canopy; a plain rectangular stone plaque devoid of inscription is located above the latter. The roof-line is punctuated by flat headed dormers with double hung sashes, which in pairs, light the bedrooms and wards; a central gabled dormer lights both the stairwell and landing. Since closure, the building appears to have been divided into two self-contained dwellings and although in reasonable structural order, has an unkept appearance. The site in currently on the market. <1> <2> NRHE data transfer: no new information.