It is best known as the birthplace of tens of thousands of Huddersfield folk.
But the site of the Princess Royal Health Centre - the town’s former maternity hospital - has now been put on the market, with offers of more than £1.5 million being invited.
The site was first opened in July, 1928, as the Municipal Maternity Home, replacing the previous maternity hospital at Mill Hill Hospital in Dalton, after Huddersfield health officials acquired a large former Victorian vicarage in Greenhead Road and turned it into a hospital.
The first baby was born on July 3, two days after the opening. It was a boy for Mr and Mrs Harold Armitage, of Blacker Road, Birkby, who christened their son Roland.
In July, 1939, a large extension was opened by the then Princess Royal, and in 1940 it became the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital, which is the name that appeared on thousands of birth certificates over the next four decades.
The last baby was born there in October, 1984, and the site was then handed over to community health services, and renamed the Princess Royal Health Centre.
It closed last year after it emerged it needed a £10m overhaul, and the health services it provided were moved to different sites across the region.
The Princess Royal site, at the corner of Greenhead Road and Park Avenue, comprises a range of linked buildings arranged on a 2.8 acre plot. They are mainly stone built with slate roofs and linked by external corridors.
The staff block in the north west corner is a period two storey ashlar stone building, with various ornate features and is Grade II listed.
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There are lawned areas between the various buildings, and a large tarmac surfaced car park to the rear.
Walker Singleton is marketing the property, on instructions from Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
It says the buildings are suitable for a wide variety of alternative uses and the site offers potential for redevelopment subject to planning approval.
The property is unallocated on the Kirklees Council Unitary Development Plan. It falls within a conservation area.
Walker Singleton says the surrounding area is mixed use, primarily residential, with offices and healthcare buildings, and Greenhead Sixth Form College directly opposite.
Director Steve Molloy said the site offers potential for a wide variety of alternative uses and possible redevelopment subject to formal planning consent.
“It’s just gone on the market but already there’s a fair bit of interest. It has planning consent for healthcare use, and clearly has potential for a wide variety of uses.
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“It’s a conservation area which is a factor, and the building in the corner is listed. It’s a mixed use area and it’s very well located.”
He said that dividing the plot up could be “problematic” and the site is being marketed as a single unit.
The closing date for submission of offers is May 31.
