no.5844

Convalescent Home Grange

post 1914

View up the drive on Allithwaite Road to the grand building that was the miner’s convalescent home in Grange over Sands. The long frontage has a central porch with a large cupola on the roof. Two wings extend either side with white quoins, mullions, lintels and other features picked out against the darker walls. Over the porch it reads erected 1914. Extensive lawns lead up the terrace. Originally built in 1914 as a convalescent home for miners. The salty sea air was believed to be beneficial, especially for tuberculosis sufferers. In the mid-1900s, the area was home to a number of convalescent homes run by the mining unions providing rest and care for its injured and ailing members. It stands in grounds with a grade II listed war memorial. The memorial is one of the earliest cast concrete statues unique in the database of the UK War Memorials The building was converted to a private residential nursing home in 1991 but has retained many of the original architectural features.