Fairwood Hospital, a former community hospital built in the early 1900s that closed in 2010, has been put on the market as a development opportunity.
National commercial property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has been instructed to sell the vacant site on behalf of the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board.
Spanning just over two acres (2.06 acres), the site is located 8km west of Swansea close to the B4271 (the Gower Road) which is the main link route from the city centre to the Gower Peninsular.
LSH is inviting offers of over £350,000 for the freehold property which comprises four separate buildings set within private grounds with large grassed areas plus ornamental and mature trees.
LSH’s Alun Lewis is confident the former hospital would suit a variety of development purposes from a residential care home, boarding school, college or training centre adding that a small housing development is also a possibility.
“One of the conditions of a residential scheme getting the go ahead is that 51 to 100 per cent should be made available as affordable homes,” says Lewis, “and given the exceptional rural location equidistant between Gower beaches and the city of Swansea it’s certainly an ideal place to live.”
The four buildings on the site are building one which is called Admin/House, two storey, residential in style and measures 1,894 sq ft. Building two, Upper Ward, is a single storey former hospital ward 1,377 sq ft property.
Building three known as Lower Ward is also single storey and spanning 2002 sq ft was once used as the hospital’s reception as well as a ward. The former physio and staff lounge, building four, is also single storey and extends to 1,883 sq ft.
Fairwood Hospital was originally a fever hospital specifically designed as a cluster of buildings to keep groups of infectious patients isolated. With the creation of the National Health Service, the hospital was transferred to the Minister of Health in 1948 and later became a maternity hospital and subsequently an elderly care hospital.
For more information please contact Alun Lewis at LSH on 01792 702800.