Historic Building Recording of Prudhoe Hospital

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Building 7: Special Care Unit, Stephenson House

Stephenson House was built in 1986 and was the last new building constructed in the hospital grounds. Stephenson House was designed and used as a Special Care Unit for male adolescent patients.

Stephenson House was a single-storey square building of yellow engineering bricks with a slated hipped roof and ceramic coping tiles bonded in concrete. An inner skin of brickwork is composed of red brick with concrete mortar. Windows have simple brick surrounds and projecting simple concrete sills without lintels. The building has a central rectangular courtyard, and a projecting wing extending off the north-west corner. At the time of recording, windows and doors were clad in light-permeable metal sheeting.

The projecting wing has a central corridor with flanking rooms on both sides. These rooms include the “Safe Rooms”, three rooms with substantial reinforced doors with heavy locks. The interior wall surfaces had been recovered and furnished with gently rounded corners, and the south-west corner of each room was furnished with a lenticular mirror which provided viewing potential of the whole room from the door inspection panel. It is clear that these rooms were reserved for the confinement of patients in times of violence or extreme distress.

The central courtyard was accessed via the north-east and the south-west wings and appears to have been designed as a secure internal recreational area. The external walls have been decorated with multi-coloured murals of figures, animals and landscapes painted directly onto the brickwork and dated 2009.


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