Former Workhouse, Warminster, Wiltshire
The Warminster Union workhouse was erected in on a three-acre site known as Boot Field at Sambourne to the south of Warminster. The Poor Law Commissioners authorised an expenditure of £7,000 on construction of the new building which was to accommodate 300 inmates. The building went into use in February 1837. The workhouse closed in 1929, in 1948 the institution became part of the new National Health Service under the name of Sambourne Hospital. It continued in use as a geriatric hospital until the mid-1990s and is now housing.
