Pulross Road, SW9 is west of Brixton Road, south of Stockwell Road and north of Acre Lane, in an area, which is predominantly, Victorian terraced residential properties. An Intermediate Health Care Centre provides medical treatment in a way that is half way between a general practitioner's surgery and a hospital. The Pulross Centre was completed in early 2000 and was built at a cost of 2.34m. The architects are Penoyre and Prasad.
Large hospitals can be daunting, intimidating and confusing.
St Thomas's, on the bank of the Thames opposite the Palace of Westminster was first established in 1106. The large 19th Century complex of buildings were opened by Queen Victoria in 1871. The white tiled extension to the south east of Westminster Bridge was designed by York Rosenberg and Mardall in the 1960s. The Middlesex Hospital, on Mortimer Street, north of Oxford Street was established in 1745. The current building dates from 1935.