Designs for a home for feeble-minded girls, Cumnor Rise (or Cumnor Rise Hospital), Oxford: plans, elevations, section

NOTES: Cumnor Rise or Cumnor Rise Hospital was designed 1903-1904 and completed in 1907. It was demolished in 1991 for new housing in Hutchcombe Farm Close. Cumnor Rise was opened in 1907 as a home for young ladies with learning disabilities, or 'Feeble Minded Girls' as they were called at the time. Also troublesome, or disgraced, girls were often placed there.