Dutton Hospital

Runcorn workhouse site, 1870s later to be renamed Dutton Hospital.

Dutton Hospital was part of the old West Cheshire Hospital Management Committee Rural Sector. This was made up of Runcorn Cottage Hospital, Dutton Hospital., Crossley Hospital and Tarporley Cottage Hospital.
 
 

Dutton Hospital began life as a Union workhouse for 280 inmates. The origal work house buildings were built in 1855-7 at a site to the east of Dutton called at Preston Brook.
 
 
 

The design was based largely upon a cruciform plan built with red brick and with an Elizabethan front with a turret and clock. The workhouse's location is shown below on the Ordnance Survey map (1870s ).

Developments:-

• workhouse infirmary enlarged 1881-2.
• Other extensions - 1895,
• nurses' home   - 1906.

Acknowledgement -
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Runcorn/Runcorn.html
http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/ches/runcorn_workhouse.htm

Being researched at present - if anyone has information it would be gratefully received.
 

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