Rushford Court | |
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Former names | County Hospital, Durham |
General information | |
Type | Student residence; formerly hospital (closed 2010) |
Town or city | Durham |
Country | UK |
Coordinates | 54°46′43″N 1°35′05″W / 54.77859°N 1.58472°W |
Named for | Hannah Rushford, Mayor of Durham |
Completed | 1853 |
Renovated | 2018 |
Owner | Unite Students |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 363 |
Website | |
https://www.unitestudents.com/durham/rushford-court |
Rushford Court is a student hall and former hospital in Durham, England. It opened in 1853 as County Hospital, and closed as a hospital in 2010 after services were moved to Lanchester Road Hospital on the outskirts of the city.
In 2018, after extensive work to demolish later additions to the hospital building and construct new accommodation blocks, Unite Students reopened the site as a privately-operated hall for Durham University students under the name Rushford Court. In 2019–20, the university used the site as a temporary home for its John Snow College, and in 2023 announced that it would be using it as a temporary home for Hild Bede College, and afterwards founding a new college on the site.