Towers Hospital

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]