Towers Hospital

Towers Hospital
Original main block with superintendent's residence above, Towers Hospital
Shown in Leicestershire
Geography
Location	Humberstone, Leicestershire, England
Coordinates	52°38′59″N 1°05′28″W / 52.6498°N 1.0911°W / 52.6498; -1.0911Coordinates: 52°38′59″N 1°05′28″W / 52.6498°N 1.0911°W / 52.6498; -1.0911
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Type	Specialist
Services
Emergency department	N/A
Speciality	Psychiatric Hospital
History
Opened	1869
Closed	2013
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

The Towers Hospital was a mental health facility in Humberstone, Leicestershire, England. The administration building, which became known as George Hine House, is a Grade II listed building.^[1]

History[]

The site chosen for the hospital had previously been occupied by Victoria House, the former home of Benjamin Broadbent, a master builder.^[2] The hospital, which was designed by Edward Loney Stephens using a corridor layout with compact arrow additions, opened as the Leicester Borough Lunatic Asylum in September 1869.^[3] An extension to the male ward, designed by George Thomas Hine, was completed in 1883 and a corresponding extension to the female ward, also designed by Hine, was completed in 1890.^[3] A bath house, also designed by Hine, was added in 1913.^[3] The facility became the Leicester City Mental Hospital in the 1920s.^[3] Three detached villa properties, built in the 1930s, were made available to the Emergency Medical Service during the Second World War.^[3] The facility joined the National Health Service as the Towers Hospital in 1948.^[4]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in April 2013.^[3] The administration building, which became known as George Hine House, was converted for use as a Sikh free school in 2014.^[5] Several of the other buildings, including the original main block with superintendent's residence above, have been redeveloped for residential use.^[3]

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