Dingleton Hospital

Dingleton Hospital was a mental health facility in Melrose, Scotland.

[1] The hospital, which was designed by Brown & Wardrop, opened as the Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk District Asylum in May 1872.

[3] A monolithic concrete boiler house, designed by Peter Womersley, which still dominates the local skyline, was completed in 1977.

[1] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 2001.

[2] The main building has since been converted for residential use as "Dingleton Apartments" within a wider housing development across the former hospital site known as "Trimontium Heights".