The site formerly occupied by the hospital has now been largely redeveloped for residential use.

The facility was designed by Arthur and Dwelly as a workhouse and built on a site to the east of the junction of Longfield Place and Greenbank Road between 1852 and 1858.

[1] Enlargements included a major expansion of the medical facilities between 1907 and 1910.

[1] The building was bombed several times in attacks on the areas surrounding Plymouth Sound during the Second World War.

[2] After it joined the National Health Service in 1948, it was renamed Freedom Fields Hospital.