Historic Building Recording of Prudhoe Hospital

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Building 13: Midway and Janie Hepple Physiotherapy Unit

The Midway block and Janie Hepple Physiotherapy Unit were built in 1961. It is a tripartite building of angled plan, composed of two rectangular-in-plan wings, oriented approximately north-east and south-east respectively, joined by a curved corridor and central treatment block. The northern wing is known as the ‘Midway West’ building, and the Janie Hepple Unit was historically known as Midway East before being renamed in 1994.

The building was originally planned as an integrated unit with separate and spatially distinct wings accessing a central treatment area. The building latterly became separated, probably with the inauguration of the Janie Hepple Unit in 1994. Midway West appears to have remained as an accommodation block, with larger ward rooms subdivided into smaller presumably single-occupancy rooms, without access to the physiotherapy centre, whereas the Janie Hepple Unit expanded as a specialised treatment ward for patients with brain damage following illness, injury or strokes.

The building is of single storey at its northern and western extent but because of the topography sloping gently to the south-east becomes two storied at its southern and eastern extents. The gable-end blocks are furnished with bay windows. The lower storey external walls, which stand proud at the south and east elevations of the building are of darker reddish-brown.

Several minor additions and amendments have been made to the original ground plan. Windows, all sealed at the time of recording with light-permeable steel shuttering, have simple brick surrounds and concrete projecting lintels. The main access to the building, a set of double doors near the corner formed by the south wing and the connecting hall, is elaborated with a hipped-roof porch of glass panels in wood and metal frames, supported by simple metal columns without capitols. On the exterior wall to the north of this entrance is set a commemorative plaque commemorating the opening of the Janie Hepple Unit in April 1994.


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