Cherry Knowle Hospital

The hospital was designed by George Thomas Hine using a Compact Arrow layout and construction began in 1893.^[1] It was opened as the Sunderland Borough Asylum in 1895.^[2] A villa block was added in 1902. Further development took place in the 1930s when an admissions hospital and convalescent villas were built.^[1]

During the Second World War emergency medical service huts were established on the site: these were later developed to create Ryhope General hospital.^[3]

The asylum joined the National Health Service as Cherry Knowle Hospital in 1948.^[4] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1998.^[2] The buildings were largely demolished in 2011^[5] and the site is being redeveloped for residential use.^[6]

The Hopewood Park mental health campus opened on the site in 2014.^[7]