County Hospital, Durham

County Hospital, Durham is a hospital that is part of the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation Trust of the NHS and provides mental health care to people from the North Durham area.

History

On an elevated point in the City of Durham, is a spacious building of stone, supported by donations and public subscriptions and erected in 1853, in the Elizabethan style, at a cost of £7,500, and will hold 44 patients. In 1867 male and female convalescent wards were added at a cost of £2,400 as a memorial of the late Dean Waddington, who in 1865 contributed £2,000 to the funds of the hospital, and subsequently a further sum of £2,000, and finally bequeathed by will £6,000 more. Additional wards were added by the late John Eden esq., of Beamish Park, who gave a sum of £2,000 towards their erection, and bequeathed a further sum of £10,000. These were opened December 2, 1886. There is now room for 50 patients. Source: Kelly's Directory 1910

The hospital is part of the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation Trust of the NHS and provides mental health care to people from North Durham area.

Closure

The sites is due to close when the new £24 million Lanchester Road Hospital is completed on the Earls House Hospital site.