Torridge Hospital | |
Location: | Meddon Street, Bideford |
Region: | Devon |
Country: | England |
Healthcare: | NHS |
Type: | Geriatric |
Founded: | 1838 |
Closed: | c.1993 |
Map Type: | Devon |
Coordinates: | 51.0152°N -4.2118°W |
Torridge Hospital was a health facility in Meddon Street, Bideford, Devon, England. It has been converted into apartments and remains a Grade II listed building.
The facility, which was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt, opened as the Bideford Union Workhouse in 1838.[1] An isolation block was added in the 1880s and a new infirmary was completed in 1903.[1] It became the Whitehouse Public Assistance Institution in 1930 and joined the National Health Service in 1948 before evolving into a geriatric facility.[2] After the hospital closed in around 1993[3] the main building was converted into apartments as Westcroft Court.[4]