Stone House Hospital/City of London Lunatic Asylum - Nov 2011

[nelly]

Stone House Hospital, formerly the City of London Lunatic Asylum, was a hospital and former mental illness treatment facility in Stone, near Dartford, Kent



Stone House was originally constructed at a cost of £65,000 between 1862 and 1866 at the behest of the London Commissioners in Lunacy to provide for pauper lunatics from the London

The buildings were designed in a Tudor Revival architecture style by James Bunstone Bunning, and the facility accommodated 220 patients. The asylum grounds, at first 33 acres and later expanded to 140 acres included a working farm.



After 1892, the asylum was able to take "private" patients (patients whose fees were paid by their families, or from pensions). The influx of private patients resulted in a budget surplus, and enabled expansion and improvements of the asylum's facilities. In 1924 the facility was renamed the City of London Mental Hospital, and in 1948 it was taken over by the new National Health Service and became known as Stone House Hospital. A 1998 assessment by Thames Healthcare suggested that the hospital was not suited for modern healthcare; plans for the hospital's closure were initiated in 2003 by West Kent NHS.



Among its most famous patients was the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, who resided there from 1922 until his death in 1937.

Closed in November 2007 and currently being redeveloped into luxury Houses/Flats





















































Thanks for taking the time

[Rustysphotography]

Awesome mate really really cool . Security told me once that there was a tiny padded room in there somewhere . Not sure how true that is

[GeoVDUB]

That's spot on as per mate!

[wevsky]

ah love the report nelly..and rusty secca told us twice to get out lol..no idea about a padded room!!

[MJS]

Mint sauce Nellingtons

[Rustysphotography]

ah love the report nelly..and rusty secca told us twice to get out lol..no idea about a padded room!!

Get out lol , what made me think it may be true was he told me the slab was gone and yeah i understand that part even if it is to make me think there is not one and stop me trying . But then he told me about a small padded cell and i did wonder why he would say there was to me and give me the idea in the first place . Strange !!!!!!

[nelly]

ah love the report nelly..and rusty secca told us twice to get out lol..no idea about a padded room!!

Could he be talking about the padded room in my photo after the boot polish one, urm? well, thats urm? A PADDED ROOM!!!!

By the way its only done to half height, I'm thinking Padded playroom for kids

[Nicola]

What a lovely building - nicely captured squire

[KingElvis]

Lovely stuff and great photos.

[boxerheaven]

wow nelly they are fantastic pics