Benvoulin House

Just opposite my house is a road named Benvoulin Gardens, which at one time was one of the entrance gates to the old County Hospital.

At the far end of this road is a Victorian stone house by name of Benvoulin, which was built in 1880. This is the subject of my Blip today - and a wet and miserable day it has been. I took the cats (or rather cat, as Rosie wasn't to be found) for a walk up there for a change and took a few pictures.

I quote from 'Historic Hospitals' - "COUNTY HOSPITAL, OBAN   Originally the Argyll County Sanatorium, built around Benvoulin House on Oban Hill, a modest stone‑built house. The sanatorium was established with funds given by Mr and Mrs Bullough of Fasnacloich and opened in 1909. Ward blocks were built in the grounds of Benvoulin House for the patients and the house used as staff and office accommodation. The hospital developed into a general acute unit as the need for TB treatment declined after the Second World War. It closed in 1995."

The whole site was sold to a developer and now 13 luxury homes fill the site, along with the original house. My extra shows some of the new houses.