Site of late 19th century hospital, Halstead Urban District Council Infectious Diseases Hospital, Mount Hill (EHER 15649)

Isolation hospital of 1896 by Goodey and Cressall.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: 1999. Survey. Situated on a parcel of land to the east of Mount Hill (London Road), the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Halstead, was built to designs prepared by local Colchester based architects Goodey and Cressall. It was commissioned by the Halstead Urban District Council and erected in 1896 at a cost, including a free-standing matrons residence, of £3,570. In 1915 the Urban District Council approved plans, submitted by Goodey and Cressall, architects appointed by the Halstead Joint Hospital Board, for the enlargement of the complex with the addition of a new ward block. The site, which was set back from the road frontage, originally comprised a centrally positioned matrons house with the hospital block to the rear and utility buildings to the north. The later ward block was an L-shaped building situated immediately south of these earlier structures and adjacent to the site entrance. The hospital has been demolished and a modern residential housing estate now occupies the site. <1> See also: <2>