3. Fever Hospital

In the 1843 map of Deanshanger, it shows that Church Lane was formally known as Hospital Lane and reference to the deeds of properties in this area indicates that a workhouse or “Aspital” (hospital) stood on the site. This was replaced by the three-storied red brick Victorian cottages that now stand on the site. These were built in 1868 and each cottage had a strip of productive garden which extended to the banks of the brook and accommodated a very large greenhouse. The courses of yellow brick were made in Deanshanger.