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Buildings designed for the purposes of health or welfare range from the fashionable to the functional (the fashion for bathing going back to Roman times):
baths and bath houses
hospitals
workhouses
While the country house estates contain many small buildings belonging to the former tradition, and even a number of old hospital sites, the National Trust’s most notable holding is the Workhouse at Southwell, opened following restoration in March 2002. This prototype Victorian building dating from 1824 established the architectural model for hundreds of similar workhouses, introduced throughout Britain under the New Poor Law, and the institution of a system of welfare treatment based on harsh conditions and the segregation of family members.
The front facade of The Thurgarton Hundred Incorporation Workhouse, Southwell, in the morning. It was designed by William A. Nicholson to plans by the Rev. John T. Becher in 1824 and is now a Grade II listed building.
Stairs at The Workhouse, Southwell looking up from the ground floor showing the window on the landing and the pairs of hand rails.
