Dingleton Hospital

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Dingleton Hospital was a mental health hospital in Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland. It opened in May 1872 as the Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk District Asylum, designed by Brown & Wardrop. A new female hospital block was added in 1898, and two wings were built in 1906 by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson. It joined the National Health Service in 1948 and became Dingleton Hospital. A large concrete boiler house, designed by Peter Womersley and finished in 1977, dominates the area. After the move to Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital declined and closed in 2001. The main building has since been turned into Dingleton Apartments as part of Trimontium Heights, a housing development on the site. The boiler house is a Category B listed building.