Planning permission was granted in 2009 to build the existing Highfield Unit for Adolescents and Young People. The building, designed by Gray Baines and Shew, was completed in 2012 on the site of the former cricket pitch. The unit provides inpatient treatment for 18 young people aged between 11 and 18. The unit also offers a day patient service for up to four young people.
The Warneford began providing specialist services for young people in 1958, when the Park Hospital was repurposed from its original function as a Hospital for the Treatment of Nervous Disorders (which opened in 1938, adding another 26 beds and bringing the Warneford’s total to c.130). The original Park House building has since been extensively refitted and is now known as Boundary Brook House. It is used for administrative, rather than clinical, purposes.
Image: Original Park Hospital building (OHA) / close ups of the mosaic and stained glass (on drive)
