SNN110970 - Historic building recording: St Giles Street clinic, 67 St Giles Street, Northampton, 2017

In August 2017 historic building recording was undertaken of St Giles Clinic, 67 St Giles Street, Northampton, prior to demolition and redevelopment of the site. The clinic, a single-storey, flat-roofed brick building constructed in a restrained Art Deco style, was constructed in 1936 as a purpose-built health clinic on the north side of St Giles Street, on a site which had largely been undeveloped since the mid-18th century. Following the establishment of the NHS the clinic continued to operate until it closed in 2014, having served as an ‘Infant Welfare Centre’ (c.1962) and more recently as a Health Centre, offering dental and medical services and a family planning clinic. Apart from the fabric of the building itself, little remains of any period detailing apart from a glazed transom in the entrance foyer, the tall north-facing windows in the central waiting area, the parquet floors and the two glazed hatches, now disused, on the south side of the waiting area.