Herrison Hospital was a mental health facility in Charminster,

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History

The hospital, which was designed by

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using a Corridor Plan layout, opened as the Dorset County Asylum in 1863. A female annex, designed by

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, was added in 1896 and a private asylum for fee paying patients, known as Herrison House and also designed by Hine, was added in 1904. The facility became the Dorset County Mental Hospital in 1920 and Herrison Hospital in 1940 before joining the

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in 1948. After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in January 1992. The site was subsequently developed for residential use as

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. Three of the larger buildings — Redwood (the main structure built in 1863), Greenwood (the female annex built in 1896) and Herrison House (the private asylum built in 1904) — have been converted into apartments.

References

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