Fair Mile Hospital (Berkshire County Asylum)

chelle · Apr 21, 2007

Visited a month or so ago and did the externals and outside buildings/farm,maintenance and laundry.Sorry if this has been reported before but I couldnt find any post of it.
This is the main entrance...I would love this place

Frontage

Pumps

Laundry

Male Wing?cant remember

Main hall

Clocktower..lovely design and still working

View from sports field

for the rest of the album...hope it helps any visitor navigate round
http://news.webshots.com/album/557069998hVArqr?start=0

King Al · Apr 21, 2007

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What a great place! Nice one Chelle

, nice pictures.

Did you see any of the inside on your tour :question:

And was the main hall completely intact :question:

chelle · Apr 21, 2007

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Glad u liked the pics King Al...we dont go out of our way to GET IN places...too old too scardey cat!If a door is open then thats different and yes the Main hall is intact if somewhat modern looking...lets just say the security here is quite hi-tec vocally!Oh and the social club next to the asylum is still open..we joined for the day just to get a pint or three...dont tell my boss but we threw a sickie to go here too! :mrgreen:

Foxylady · Apr 21, 2007

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chelle;12286; said:
Oh and the social club next to the asylum is still open..we joined for the day just to get a pint or three...dont tell my boss but we threw a sickie to go here too!

Really nice building, Chelle. Love the frontage.
Cheers
Foxy

staffordshireranger · Apr 22, 2007

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What a totally stunning building...wow whoever gets this site has a gem for converson..very elegant.

King Al · Apr 22, 2007

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staffordshireranger;12294; said:
What a totally stunning building...wow whoever gets this site has a gem for converson..very elegant.

I agree, that is a nice place, I think the red brick with that modern turret effect works well, it sets it out from the crowd. I hope it is converted rather than demolished, I rather like it

chelle · Apr 22, 2007

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It is goin to be convertetd,i think Linden homes have the contract :lol:

King Al · Apr 22, 2007

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chelle;12299; said:
It is goin to be convertetd,i think Linden homes have the contract

Not to bad i suppose

, although i bet they spoil the grounds

Pete · Apr 22, 2007

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chelle;12299; said:
It is goin to be converted,i think Linden homes have the contract

It is also listed grade II which should give it further protection. I am not sure how much of the building is covered, but should protect the original Howell buildings and Hine additions such as the hall. This is so far the only example of Howell's asylum work to be listed (dependant on what happens with Cane Hill).

The ground down to the thames should be fairly safe as there is a reasonable amount of land to be developed there - the strip incorporating the new laundry etc., George Schuster unit, social club site and the council are not likely to allow development on the undeveloped areas.

staffordshireranger · Apr 22, 2007

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I HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS ON THIS ASYLUM............
the developers have been names as pj livesey

http://www.pjlivesey-group.co.uk

and this company have converted many former asylums and this one is due soon..i have the plans in pdf....ill try and upload them but if you do want to be nosey please email me at [email protected] and ill email you the plan and it looks great. oops its just over 4 meg so if you want to see the master plan drop me a email

steve

Pagan · Apr 22, 2007

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Fairmile is an AMAZING explore, access was ridiculously tough though and I only have about 4 photos! It's such a lovley building but spoiled by millions of cameras

Disco Kitten · Apr 30, 2007

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King Al;12283; said:
Did you see any of the inside on your tour And was the main hall completely intact

Here ya go, some inside pics:

Main hall is intact

A few more on my website too

OldHam. · Jan 16, 2009

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Hey, have you been inside the hospital? if you have, do you know how i could go about visiting the hospital and viewing inside? if you could reply asap that would be brilliant thanks

chelle · Jan 16, 2009

No not been inside

We didnt go inside,and to be honest am not that keen...as for getting inside, take a look at other Fairmile reports maybe they will help you in your quest.
regards
Stu

mr_bones · Jan 16, 2009

OldHam

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/announcement.php?f=94&a=1

Will give you some of the information you require.

Thanks.

night crawler · Jan 25, 2009

Little bit of an update guys it is now getting new security fencing put up around the place and some more new signs around the place, what I will say is most of the local people take no notice of them and still take the gogs for a walk through the place. Will post s few photo's later.

night crawler · Jan 25, 2009

This is the old Fairmile farm entrance as seen from over the road

And these are the signs you see every 25mtres or so

chelle · Jan 25, 2009

Ha ha..

Do you go gog walking too?

sorry for that NT,it just made me laugh..

regards from Stu

night crawler · Jan 25, 2009

Dam typo's, not round there I don't too many rabbit's and teh whippets wold be straining at the leash.

vmlopes · Jan 26, 2009

Hey NT, you sure thats going round the whole site??

They appear to have stopped at the farm entrance, which seems weird???

Why put up such a large fixed fence, maybe the re-development is on hold...........surely if they were building the Herras would be preferred.

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