Building Name

New Wing. Stockport Infirmary ("Jubilee" additions)

Date
1897 - 1900
District/Town
Stockport
County/Country
GMCA, England
Work
Extension
Contractor
Meadows, of Heaton Norris

STOCKPORT INFIRMARY. ‑ At a committee meeting held on the 22nd inst., the subscribers to the Stockport Infirmary decided to suitably commemorate the Queen's record reign by enlarging and improving the present building. Messrs. Woodhouse and Willoughby, of Manchester, were selected as the architects to carry out the work. [Builder 27 February 1897 page 207]

STOCKPORT INFIRMARY - The contract for the enlarging of the Stockport Infirmary by the addition of two new wards, nurses' quarters, new laundry, etc., has been let to Messrs. Meadows, of Heaton Norris, for the sum of £10,083, Messrs. Woodhouse & Willoughby, Manchester, being the architects. [Builder 16 July 1898 Page 64]

NEW WING, STOCKPORT INFIRMARY. — The foundation stone of the new north wing of this building was laid on the 27th ult. The extensions now in course of erection consist of a pavilion block four stories high, in line with, and in continuation of, the present range of buildings facing Wellington-road, and a laundry and mortuary block on the land at the rear of the main buildings. The pavilion block covers an area of about 420 superficial yards, and will provide the following accommodation : Two wards for fourteen beds each, with the usual ward scullery and bath-room at the entrance end of the wards, and a suite of sanitary offices in a tower at the far west end of ward ; a suite of servants’ bedrooms for fourteen beds on the top floor, with similar sanitary and bath-room accommodation ; an operating theatre, north lighted, with suite of rooms attached for an aesthetics, instruments, &c., and surgeons’ rooms, and a two-bf surgical ward ; matron’s suite of rooms, consisting of sitting, bed, and bath rooms ; day room on the ground-floor level, with a patients’ recreation room under the wards on the lower ground-floor level; and on this floor also a doctors’ bath-room and sanitary conveniences; various store-rooms and heating cellar. Communication is obtained between the whole of the above rooms by means of a stone staircase. The laundry and mortuary block covers an area of about 230 superficial yards, and comprises washhouse, with finishing room, boiler-house, coals, and servants’ conveniences. The mortuary consists of a small room fitted with three slabs, and a post-mortem room adjoining. The area of the portion of Frances Street, at the rear of the main buildings, which has been acquired for these extensions, is about 300 superficial yards. The architects are Messrs. Woodhouse & Willoughby, of Manchester. The contractors are Messrs. Meadows.  [Builder 5 November 1898 page 414]

As a memorial of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, it was decided in 1897 to add a new wing to Stockport Infirmary. Yesterday Lord Newton of Lyme formally opened the extension. The new buildings include a pavilion block of four storeys and a laundry and mortuary block of one storey. In the pavilion block there are two large wards, each to accommodate fourteen beds, a patients’ recreation room and an operating theatre. The work has involved an outlay of £12,000. [Manchester Guardian 29 November 1900 page 3]

Reference    Builder 27 February 1897 page 207
Reference    Builder 9 July 1898 Page 48 (tenders) and 16 July 1898 Page 64
Reference    Building News 8 July 1898 Page xvi
Reference    Builder 4 June 1898 Page 554 (Contracts)
Reference    Builder 5 November 1898. Page 414
Reference    Manchester Guardian 29 November 1900 page 3 – opening