Nurses’ Home, Rochdale Workhouse, (Birch Hill Hospital), Dearnley

ROCHDALE - The board of guardians have decided to have a home erected for the nurses at the workhouse infirmary, Dearnley. Accommodation will be provided for 41 persons. It will be a three-storey building. The external walls will be faced with local bricks with York stone dressings, and the roofs will be covered with blue Welsh slates with overhanging eaves. The total cost, including furnishing, will be £5,500. Mr. Robert Kay, of Bury Road, Rochdale, is the builder, and Mr. Herbert Clough, of Butts Avenue, Rochdale, is the architect. [Building News 18 August 1911 page 222]

Reference        British Architect 2 June 1911 Page viii – contracts
Reference        Builder 2 June 1911 page 698 – contracts
Reference        Builder 21 April 1911 page 492 – proposed work
Reference        Building News 18 August 1911 page 222
Reference        Manchester Guardian 4 November 1911 page 4 – contracts, heating and hot water
Reference        Manchester Guardian 7 November 1911 page 3 – contracts