Former Isolation Hospital, Arne, Dorset
This isolation hospital dates from the early 1900s. It was built to a pre-fabricated system by Humphrey's of Knightsbridge. It was type 3 of their range as published in their 1900 catalogue. It has a timber frame on a brick base and is clad in corrugated iron with a pitched corrugated iron roof. It is a single storey building with two wards reached via external porches, one on each side of the kitchen, bathroom, store, washroom. There are three asymmetrically placed bedrooms all reached via a lobby placed off-centre. It was recommended as a model pre-fabricated isolation hospital. Hospitals like this were once important in the treatment of infectious diseases in Britain and the Empire. This is now the best preserved example left.
