Westwood Hospital, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire
Westwood Hospital was built as the Beverley Union Workhouse in 1860-61. The red brick Tudor-style building cost £5,500 and was designed by John and William Atkinson of York. The Atkinsons designed a number of other Yorkshire workhouses. It later became Beverley Public Assistance Institution, but was taken over as a hospital in 1939. During the Second World War, the site was a base hospital of the Emergency Medical Scheme. In 1940 eight timber-built ward blocks were put up on the site. After 1948, it became known as Westwood Hospital. In 2010 there are plans to replace the hospital, which currently has 12 beds, with a larger and more modern building.
