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Site purchased Ground and first floor plans from Annual Report in file. The hospital closed in , and has since been converted to housing with a large housing development to the south. Opened 25 July , designed by H. Includes small plan. Polychrome brickwork. Plans approved competition won by Commissioners in Lunacy, work began June , designed strictly in accordance with the rules of the Commissioners. Three storeys high.

Gibbins, architect. The hospital closed in and the buildings were converted into apartments, renamed Southdowns Park. The Coppice Hospital, Notts T. Designed for patients of the upper and middle classes. It closed in and was converted into apartments, known as Hine Hall.

House early 19thC villa. For paying patients previously at county asylum Horton Road Hospital. Wings were added to either side of house and a winter garden erected in garden grounds. Competition held in , plans approved , building opened Hine, opened , female side of asylum and bought Herrison Farm new chapel. Two-storey centre, Ruskinian number — rendered wings three storeys. Herrison House nice. The hospital closed in the early s and the site developed for housing — retaining and converting the principal earlier ranges — named Charlton Down.

Listed in Howell, County Surveyor. Three storey and basement, polychrome brick, small round-arched windows. PSA plans. William Lambie Moffatt. Foundation stone laid August Recreation hall with Royal Doulton tiles ornamenting proscenium arch.

Accommodation comprises large dormitory on one side of gallery and singe rooms on other. Was threatened with closure and partial demolition. The present buildings, which accom over patients, will be adapted for female patients and the extension devoted entirely for male patients. Roberts and A. For patients, designed by W. Only additions were Recreation Hall and theatre, and chapel. Phipson, built in 70s though designed by him in Plain, two-tone brick, two storey, corridor plan. Guardians had previously run an asylum until c.

OS map marks disused asylum. Town, very nice with lots of verandas, single storey. This appears to have been demolished, but the older buildings remaining. A Y-plan? Still in hospital use Springfield two detached blocks villas for private patients colony extension, six villas and kitchens villas for voluntary patients and two assistant medical officer houses.

Stephens, borough surveyor, opened Originally contained beds in each division on ground and first floor. Two wards front and back second floor associated dormitories, 24 single rooms, 2 padded, 2 strong rooms. Goodacre of Leicester another new wing by Goddard and Paget ext add beds and new recreation hall and admin.

Site purchased , designed by E. Paley, foundation stone laid , central block and south wing compoleted and opened in September. In he was Medical Superintendant at Earlswood. In he purchased an unfinished house near the Thames at Hampton Wick.

It was completed by Rowland Plumbe. This was demolished c. In a new asylum was designed by Thomas Fulljames, of Gloucester and built in to the north of Abergavenny for the counties of Monmouth, Hereford, Brecon and Radnor with the City of Hereford.

In the union of counties was dissolved and the county and city of Hereford decided to provide a new asylum. Robert Griffiths of Stafford was commissioned to propare plans for an asylum at Little Burlton, north-west of Hereford.

Work was completed in It houses patients, corridor-plan, brick. Howell and opened in Interesting example of later development of corridor plan. Handsome entrance block to original buildings. Hine six staff houses W. Corridor plan with bay windows in corridors and dayrooms with canted bay ends and some dormitories. Howell to replace asylum at Clifton which it shared with North Riding. Agreed to erect independent asylum in Italianate style. Very similar to Fairmile Hospital, Cholsey.

Hospital history of , curious illustrations. Hebblethwaite beds. Pavilion plan, 1, beds. Somewhat bleak. Mount Pleasant House leased as temporary asylum from In the purchase of Wadsley Park was completed and a bed asylum begun. It was completed in , and opened in Designed by Bernard Hartley, the City Surveyor, plans dated — as built had ground floor north-east side males, receiving and infirmary. Reminds me of Burntwood, Lichfield Moffatt chapel gothic two large blocks of additional buildings, Hartley again large wing from male and smaller for females two additional ward blocks completed.

Situated to the north of Preston. Site purchased and building commenced , official opening , though partly occupied since June Plan Warwickshire RO. Quite severe in appearance. Crossland, who won a competition for the design Patients admitted , official opening 15 June Could knock the spots off a Flemish Renaissance Cloth Hall.

All day-rooms, dormitories and single rooms have a south and south-western aspect. Classification of inmates: male side four classes, 1 st , 2 nd , sick and feeble and excited. A quarter of patients occupying single rooms.

Feeble patients all on ground and first floors. Provision for fever and infectious diseases on upper floor with separate stairs, for nurses.

Attendants between day-rooms and dormitories with a glass window or doors of communication to overlook patients. Novel rules: no patient allowed to be an inmate for longer than 12 months. No hopeless cases. No re-admission after discharge. Middle classes only. Jennings of Canterbury. Robinson, Maidstone. Rowell founded for idiot children of poorer classes, new building Gothic stone 80 children.

Hine The asylum that launched his career. Second phase Two infirmaries added and recreation hall Good example of its type. Compare with Durham County Asylum. Stark Wilkinson of Exeter. Plans approved by Commissioners in Lunacy in Originally designed for 1,, patients but later extended for 2, Chapel oddly placed behind the admin block. Competition held for the design in , won by B. Jacobs of Hull, and opened in Established by the National Society for the Employment of Epileptics in It was founded at Skippings Farm and the first building erected was a temporary iron structure since demolished for 20 male patients.

Tubbs and Roberts farms were purchased later. Largest dormitories 9 beds, all upstairs. Shearman on the right near entrance. Male home built same year? Greene House , designed by Maurice B. Adams, with dormitories on ground floor, largely singe storey with staff accommodation only in small upper floor. Vickers Edwards, County Surveyor. Hine considered it similar to Gloucester with improvements in the way of centralization and arrangement of corridors, and reproduced the plan in his RIBAJ article.

Rapidly expanded to take 1, patients. Competition held for design architects placed third given commission because they were the cheapest. Mix of random rubble stone and some brick.

Some attractive elements. Plan reproduced in Building News. Isolation hospital, and admin extended. Wibberley c. Hine in built , competition for the design held See post Repton Park, formerly Claybury Hospital. Accommodated over 2, patients. Built on the estate of Claybury Hall, a late-eighteenth-century house, which was converted and extended for private patients. Typically the asylum was virtually self-sufficient, with its own farm, large kitchens, stores, and bakery, boiler house and three water towers.

Recreation hall capable of seating 1,, with oak panelled walls, and decorative plaster ceiling. Chapel linked to main complex by a corridor. By this was against the advice of the Commissioners in Lunacy who were encouraging the provision of detached chapels, able to hold about three-quarters of the inmates.

The only differences from a traditional church should be the provision of separate entrances for male and female patients, and small rooms or lobbies near the door where a patient could be taken if they became disturbed during the service. Work began and it opened Competition was judged by C.

Collinge, County Architect parole villa and two convalescent homes Williams and T. Interesting looking boiler house bit with reservoirs on either side. Report from by Blomfield. Jacobs of Hull The Rectory Estate was purchased by the Asylums Board in on which to build new asylum for chronic cases, on lines of Caterham and Leavesden.

Originally Old Hall occupied by 50 idiot boys. New asylum opened January Skinner came third in competition. Wanted an asylum for patients, capable of extension to Foundation stone laid October First portion opened comprising admin wards for Extended Admission hospital, plans prepared by K.

Murray Hine by , opened for 2, This large mental hospital was built in to the designs of G. It was the first asylum to be commissioned by the London County Council LCC and served as a model for three later asylums. When it was completed it provided accommodation for 2, patients who were mostly housed in the main complex. There were, however, a number of villas on the site for convalescents, new admissions and farm workers as well as the requisite isolation hospital.

The mansion on the site was used as the residence for the Medical Superintendent. Opened in for patients. Fd st laid in William C. Clifford Smith, asylums engineer, drew up plans in opened Opened as a private asylum, built S. Dyson, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Tenders were being advertised in for a temporary asylum for Kesteven CC, a competition held in with invited architects assessed by Howell. Saxondale Hospital, Nottingham Proposed Local boy Hine is passed over here, designed by E. Edwards, County Surveyor, Wakefield. Initially to be for patients, removing from existing three asylums in county. House was being sold off around Accomm for patients, designed by Lewis Angell, borough engineer.

Official opening 1 August , copy of souvenir brochure, well illustrated and with plan from Essex Record Office. Later became a hospital exclusively for senile dements. Opened , G. Nice chapel, rest pretty utilitarian looking.

Hine uses this one as his model in his RIBA paper. Designed for 1, with provision for extension to 1, Acute hospital for 80 patients near entrance to estate and at a distance from admin building. Main asylum patients of all classes.

Four detached villas with 30 patients each. A block for 60 idiot and imbecile children with rooms for 15 quiet female patients who assist in nursing the children. David Lewis left the majority of his fortune to be used for the benefit of the working classes of Liverpool and Manchester. Group of people in Manchester had come together in the s to establish a colony for the district for epileptics.

Began fund-raising in and in sought assistance of David Lewis Trustees. Two deputations one to continent one to America in , then drew up plans, although nearing completion by then — perhaps plans for management and running of the colony rather than design of the buildings. Admin, recreation hall, hospital, kitchen, school, laundry and workshops and farm, along centre of site with separate male and female accommodation on either side.

Three homes each for men and women, school house with dormitories for boys and girls and cottages. Edwards, County Surveyor. Admin, sick and infirm blocks, acute block, cottage homes, for patients. Vickers Edwards County Architect. In plans under consideration for main institution for further patients. Originally going to erect temporary buildings but changed after Colney Hatch fire.

Clifford Smith drew up plans , work completed Opened in after the other Middlesex asylums had been transferred to the LCC. The chapel has been demolished. The hospital closed in the s and has been converted to housing. Opening brochure in Hertford Library with lots of photos and line drawings.

Copy in file. Admin was demolished after Second World War bomb damage. Detached private patients block. Designed c. Female side: admin flanked by six blocks of two semi-detached houses 3 on east, 3 on west of admin each house 8 inebriates linked ot admin by covered way.

Opened in Hine c. Detached chapel quite nice. Isolation hospital nice but bashed about. Rowe, not built. Photographed just before demolition in , aerials just after.

Closed Pick of Everard, Son and Pick of Leicester. Pauper and private patients. Ills in BN Closed March , site sold to Alliance and Leicester. Ashby Hospital built Laundry Villa-system, supposedly based on American type, colonial style. Which is the other one? Built in as a residential school for epileptic children by Manchester Education Committee. Calderstones Hospital, Whalley, Lancashire Historic England Archives, BF Lancashire Asylums Board decided to establish a new asylum for epileptics and imbeciles in but progress was slow and there were arguments over the plan, villa or more traditional.

Compromise-ish — end up with pavilion plan not dissimilar to Leavesden or Tooting Bec. Henry Littler architect Preston. Monyhull Hall acquired, erected six homes, laundry, general kitchen and cottage for head attendant. Hall used for admin and staff accommodation. Plans for a recreation hall to be added. Designed by C. Whitmore, County Architect, and opened May Red brick, 22 blocks for 1, patients and residence for officials medical staff etc.

Rampton State Hospital, Nottinghamshire? Parts built c. Markham, HM Office of Works. Hine and H Carter Pegg. Patterson, borough engineer, tenders extended?

EMS hutted annex to north. Originally thought it should be for patients and that about a quarter would be private patients, and should be centrally situated. Hine, but project shelved until Plans approved , for 1, pauper patients and paying patients. Two sanatoria for TB and dysentery each with 45 beds. Isolation hospital with six beds. Before it was completed the finished buildings were taken over as No.

In it was transferred back to Hampshire County Council. Aerial photographs from Health Authority, show a very attractive building. In Great Barr Hall came on the market and the Chairman of the Guardians suggested they acquire it. This they did in Walsall then joined West Bromwich. Initially accommodated children and mothers. Plans were drawn up in by Gerald McMichael to provide accommodation for children, consumptives, mentally deficient imbeciles and epileptics.

Each to be in small homes in three separate areas. The first two homes were not completed until In Sanders Home opened for children under five demolished. New work ranged around the original four villas in horse-shoe shape in use by Eleven more villas built on a site which is now male side.

Opened May increased accommodation to 1, beds. Buildings designed by J. Six two-storey villas, a hospital, staff houses, workshops, recreation hall, kitchens, laundry and boiler house. A good example of its type. Ashfield House, Bradford Opened June for mentally deficient boys, claimed to be first establishment of its kind to be provided by a municipality since the Mental Deficiency Act of came into force.

Extensions were built in , and in a competition for a colony on the site was decided upon, and won in by Shepperd and H. Carter Pegg. The colony buildings were erected between and Photographs of Meanwood Hall in red boxes.

Hospital covered in The Builder , also an opening brochure. RCHME photographed the brick villas. Ward block added , and two villas built in the s. Laundry added later. Two single-storey building erected c.

The estate was purchased in The colony grew out of an earlier scheme for one at Tatham Farm. George Oatley had drawn up plans for a colony there before the outbreak of the First World War, but the War placed the plans on hold. New plans from similarly came to nothing, and it is not known whether the utilitarian blocks erected at Sandhill Park were designed by Oatley or not. The house was boarded up in the early s. Four villas, stores and a recreation hall were built to the south of the house.

On the colony plan, and unusually with some Moderne touches, enhanced by white-painted render, amidst the Neo-Georgian generally insisted upon by the Board of Control.

Illustrated in The Builder Chapel particularly good. Elcock also designed Runwell which repeats many of the elements here. Vincent Turner, architect, of Rotherham, drew up plans in for a colony for inmates. Not all built, carried out in three stages.

House became admin, villas for males 2 , females 3 , children 2 , low grade 2 , plus workshops, recreation hall, school, farm buildings and staff houses. Warwickshire and Coleshill Hall Hospital Birmingham Corporation Mental Hospital Coleshill Hall was acquired by Birmingham Corporation by when advertising tenders for four villas and alts and adds to residence.

Humphries, City Engineer. Weston hospital, Leamington Weston House was acquired about by Warwickshire Rural District Council as a colony for mental defectives.

Typical small colony. Coldeast House, an early nineteenth century house once owned, at different times, by Admiral Lord Hood, Quintin Hogg and the Montefiore family, was purchased by Hampshire County Council in Intended as a colony for 1, inmates. The house was adapted and opened in July County Architect, A. Also a school, assembly hall and mortuary.

Sanatorium c. Plans in Hampshire Record Office. Site plan of Built with proceeds from the sale of its Old Street premises, the charity adapted three villas in Woodside Avenue as a bed hospital for nervous disorders. Enlarged to provide beds to qualify as a teaching hospital in Thurston, adds Standard and plain one-to-two storey buildings, similar to Harperbury etc. Norfolk Record Office has good photographs and plans.

Typical plain buildings. Sheppard Plans in Hertfordshire Record Office. Typical example. Provided accommodation for 1, inmates. Covered in The Builder when it opened. Another typical example of this type. Tenders accepted in Formerly seems to have been Leicester Frith Home of Rest, possibly a private house, c.

Appears on map as Leicester Frith Institution for female defectives. Wing added to west. Good aerials, house looks nice but mental deficiency villas as dull as ditchwater.

First section opened in Plans in Essex Record Office and Covered in The Builder. Not visited. Curtis, County Architect, for 2, patients. Built in two phases, first completed , second underway by Block plan and perspective from The Builder. Attractive site. Three villas and temporary hospital built , J. By additional single storey buildings.

Standard stuff, brick, hip roofs, windows close under eaves, very plain and utilitarian. By early s stables of house and house itself boarded up. Six two-storey villas etc built in grounds, house became admin. Villas, four of same design, one with foundation stone 11 May , two storey H-plan, some single storey also. Additions were made in , with two single-storey villas one male one female and one two-storey villa for male patients. These continued the Neo-Georgian style, in brick with hipped slate roofs.

The main architect in charge of the additions was D. Andrews, the Regional Architect. The hospital closed in and the site subsequently redeveloped for housing. Bromham House and gate lodge were retained, but all the hospital buildings have been demolished.

Harvey, designed two villas, admin, school and recreation buildings, ended up with four bed pavilions. The Hall became the admin offices.

Borocourt Hospital, Oxfordshire A nineteenth-century house in large grounds, with four two-storey villas near by, two on each side of the house, of standard type for a mental deficiency colony. Previously this had been a sanatorium: Maitland Cottage Sanatorium, founded around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century for six patients. This had been increased to seventy by and it became an annex of Kingswood Sanatorium for working class patients.

Seems to have become the Berks and Bucks Joint Sanatorium before being taken over by the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Reading Joint Board as a mental deficiency institution in the 30s. A scheme for a colony was proposed by the Board in , approved in and tenders invited in Howell, architect. Closed by the early s.

It attempted to embody the ideals of the Mental Treatment Act, and the plans were drawn up in close collaboration with the Board of Control. There was a new emphasis on remedial treatment of mental disorders. Elcock visited mental hospital in Britain, on the Continent and in the United States. We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work.

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