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Building 22: Workshops and Industrial Training Unit

The Workshops and Industrial Training Unit is within the main zone of more densely clustered buildings which include many of public, recreational, and industrial or work-related function. Building 22 is E-shaped in plan, single storey, with main entrances to the south-west. The northern gable wing is composed of a 1930s building against which the rest of the building, built in the 1970s, has been constructed. The north wing has a pitched roof clad in Westmorland slate, with exterior walls rendered in concrete and pinkish paint. The rest of the building is composed of cavity walls constructed of reddish brick laid in stretcher courses, with a pitched roof clad in slate. The south-west elevation, the front of the building, is demarcated by brick courtyard walls with flat concrete coping, pierced by metal gates. The projecting wings of the building form two concreted courtyards. The northern wing’s east elevation is fronted by a lean-to porch addition, metal-framed with a corrugated tin roof and plyboard partitions. One of the partitions has been rebuilt in brick, and two of the windows at the northern end of the east wing have been bricked up to accommodate this lean-to addition.

The ground plan of this building, composed of an earlier 1930s element elaborated in the 1970s, displays a segmented circulation pattern with access to each block through separate external doorways. The central pavilion wing divides the external space into two non-communicating courtyards and the northern and southern ends of the building appear to function as separate halves. The building includes a ‘Shoemaker’s shop’, ‘Vehicle Shop’, ‘Workshop for L. G. Patients’(later ‘Pottery Shop’) and ‘Stick House’ as shown on the historic plans. The ‘Industrial Training Units’ are spatially close to and associated with the ‘Boys Village,’ a clear gendering of space which associates men with industrial activity. The Hospital had a large internal economy, much of it drawing on the labour of patients; this included vehicle repair, as indicated on the historic plan. Prudhoe Hospital had also long produced pottery for sale. Patient labour also included chopping wood and kindling, as is indicated on the historic ground plan, but this wing of the building was not accessed.