Mexborough hospital site under the hammer sells for £310,000

The Montagu Nurses Home site went under the hammer with a guide price of £225,000 but webt for £85,000 more.

A spokeswoman for auctioneers Pugh said she could not give any details about the buyer or their plans for the site.

Doncaster Council granted planning permission for nine homes on the site in February 2016.

From 1934 until 2011, the three-quarter-acre site on Cemetery Road was the location of state-of-the-art purpose-built accommodation for the nurses working at Montagu Hospital. 

The building included 30 bedrooms as well as a recreation room, lecture room and modern kitchens.

More recently, it was used as a car park for hospital staff but the NHS caused controversy — and concerns about parking on surrounding roads — when it hiked up staff parking fees in 2016.