Former smallpox isolation hospital
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Former smallpox isolation hospital
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 3 Apr 2019
This larger of the two restored buildings is now used a two National Trust holiday cottages. The buildings used a pre-fabricated system by "Humphrey's of Knightsbridge, type 3 of their range published in 1900" https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1140120 . (See also https://heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRecord.aspx?uid=MNA136648 .) "Recommended as a model pre-fabricated isolation hospital of type once important in the treatment of diseases in Britain and the Empire, but of which this is now the best-preserved example." The further building is listed as "Former nurses' cottage" https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1329399 .
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Image Location
Latitude
50.658525
Longitude
-2.084406