Southfield Sanatorium was a specialist historic hospital in
Liberton,
Edinburgh, Scotland, situated near Ellen's Glen nature reserve.[1][2] The house was redeveloped to provide private residences, new housing was built in the grounds and a purpose-built health facility opened at
Ellen's Glen in 2000.[3]
History
Southfield is noted in the
Ordnance Survey name books for Midlothian as the country seat of John Croall in the 1850s.[4]
Southfield House (1875) was designed by Scottish architect
John Chesser (1819–92) in the
Scottish baronial style for coachbuilder
John Croall to replace a previous house.[5] The sandstone building, with its
French Gothic detailing, was category B listed in 1996.[6]
Case notes for patients treated in Southfield Sanatorium are held by the Lothian Health Services Archive at the
University of Edinburgh.[9][10] The records show most patients stayed for a period of several months of treatment for forms of tuberculosis.[11]