Monument record IPS 606 - Ipswich Hospital, Ipswich Workhouse; "Heathfields"

"Ipswich Workhouse" mapped in early 1900s by O.S. (not shown on 1880s O.S. map), later "Heathfields" (Poor Law Institution) in 1900s, and subsequently Ipswich Hospital. Elements of original may survive within hospital complex.

Ipswich Union Workhouse was built in 1896-7 and was designed by Stephen Salter and H Percy Adams, with William Lister Newcombe. It replaced a Union Workhouse on Great Whip Street. The site included a receiving block, the main workhouse with a central administration block / master's house flanked by male and female wings (now demolished), central service and workshop blocks and an infirmary with a central adminstration block / nurses' home flanked by pavilion ward wings (now partly demolished). The infirmary was extended in the early 20th century and additional ward blocks were built during the Second World War. After the foundation of the National Health Service the buildings became Ipswich Hospital Heath Road Wing. The buildings are of brick with slate roofs (S1).

Fourteen red bricks, carved on one long side with initials, names and dates. Also iron riddle 1'4" x 1'5" Date: Carved dates in 1930s (1930 - 1932) Bricks of recent type, stamped B. & L. (Bolton & Loughlan, Ipswich, who stopped manufacturing in ? ) From the Labour Ward of the Workhouse (Site of Heath Road Hospital). The riddle is that through which the workhouse inmates passed the granite chips when they were breaking up stones to repair the roads (S2).