{"id":360494,"date":"2026-01-09T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360494\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:40:14","slug":"restoration-for-cranleigh-cottage-hospital-which-inspired-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360494\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoration for Cranleigh Cottage Hospital which &#8216;inspired the NHS&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having taken off the entire roof, Dale observed that the &#8220;original timbers, which are over 500 years old, are still in pretty good condition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alongside &#8220;preserving this unique piece of English heritage&#8221;, the National Lottery funding is being used to make the building usable for the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dale said the trust was determined to do the job right. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The way we&#8217;re looking at it is, &#8216;repair it once, repair it right&#8217;,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the trust, England&#8217;s first cottage hospital opened in 1859 and &#8220;revolutionised healthcare in pre-NHS England&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was established by Dr Albert Napper, whose descendants have travelled to Cranleigh from New Zealand to see how the repairs are going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having taken off the entire roof, Dale observed that the &#8220;original timbers, which are over 500 years old,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-360494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}