Zeepvat, R. J. (2009). Historic Building Recording: Ashford Hospital, Kings Avenue, Ashford, Kent. Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd. https://doi.org/10.5284/1024294. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Historic Building Recording: Ashford Hospital, Kings Avenue, Ashford, Kent
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Abstract:		 In May and June 2009 an historic building survey was undertaken of the buildings at Ashford Hospital, Kings Avenue, Ashford, built between 1926 and 1928. Its design was based on the pavilion-plan hospital that originated on the Continent in the mid 19th century. From a two-storey neo-Georgian style administration block, an axial corridor nearly 100m in length provided access to separate theatre, casualty, domestic, obstetrics and ward blocks. Ancillary buildings comprised a mortuary, laundry and nurses' home. Jubilee House, comprising two brick-built semi-detached houses adjoining the hospital, was given to the hospital by the town in May 1935. During WW2, a gas decontamination unit and associated air raid shelter were constructed in the hospital grounds. Following the war and the establishment of the National Health Service, many additions were made to the hospital in the 1950s and 1960s, including extensions to the wards, an outpatients' department, a boiler house and a large detached rest room/dining room. The former decontamination unit became the physiotherapy department and nurses' training centre. In the 1970s a second operating theatre was constructed, along with an incinerator. In the late 1970s the site ceased to function as a general hospital. Following a programme of refurbishment and conversion, part of the complex was officially reopened in 1980 as a hospital for the elderly. The nurses' home, which had been significantly extended to the rear, became the Community Health offices. Jubilee House, also extended to the rear, became a children's clinic. The hospital closed in the late 1990s, and all re-useable fixtures and fittings were removed. By the time of the survey the site was heavily overgrown, and suffering badly from lack of maintenance and vandalism. Only the Community Health offices and Jubilee House remained in use.
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Author:		 Robert J Zeepvat
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Publisher:		 Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2009
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Site: Asford Hospital
Parish: ASHFORD
District: Ashford
County: Kent
Country: England
Location - Auto Detected: Ashford Hospital Kings Avenue Ashford
Location - Auto Detected: Ashford Hospital Kings Avenue Ashford Kent
Grid Reference: 600260, 143070 (Easting, Northing)
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UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) NONE (Find)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) HOSPITAL (Monument Type England)
2009 (Auto Detected Temporal)
1980 (Auto Detected Temporal)
Late 1970s (Auto Detected Temporal)
Mid 19th Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
BUILDING SURVEY (Event)
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OASIS Id: archaeol2-62120
OBIB: ASC: 1177/AAH/1
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Created Date:		 28 Nov 2016