The hospital was designed by William Fogerty and opened in 1868. It became Mental Hospital in the 1920s and changed its name in the 1950s. After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in March 2002. The site, which has changed hands several times since the hospital closed, was acquired by a new developer in March 2018. No movement there since today.
