Storthes Hall
A psychiatric hospital operated at Storthes Hall from 1904-1991. It was founded as an asylum and was previously called the Storthes Hall Mental Hospital (1929-1938), the West Riding Mental Hospital (1939-1948)and Storthes Hall Hospital (1949-1991). A former mill owners house, Storthes Hall Mansion, can be found further down the road heading towards the village centre. This too was a psychiatric hospital, the Mansion Hospital, and operated separately to the one further up the road. It too closed in 1991. It is now a private residence.
The area has some private housing, however the University of Huddersfield supplies most of the occupants due to the campus that occupies part of the site of the former psychiatric hospital, the Storthes Hall Park Student Village. Recent planning permission was granted to a retirement village on the remainder of the hospital site. The site also provides training facilities to Huddersfield Town.
Most of the hospital buildings on the Storthes Hall site have been reduced to rubble, however one building, the administration remains upright but is heavily grafitied inside and is run down and dangerous to enter.
Admin 2008
Admin 1954
March 2008
A psychiatric hospital operated at Storthes Hall from 1904-1991. It was founded as an asylum and was previously called the Storthes Hall Mental Hospital (1929-1938), the West Riding Mental Hospital (1939-1948)and Storthes Hall Hospital (1949-1991). A former mill owners house, Storthes Hall Mansion, can be found further down the road heading towards the village centre. This too was a psychiatric hospital, the Mansion Hospital, and operated separately to the one further up the road. It too closed in 1991. It is now a private residence.
The area has some private housing, however the University of Huddersfield supplies most of the occupants due to the campus that occupies part of the site of the former psychiatric hospital, the Storthes Hall Park Student Village. Recent planning permission was granted to a retirement village on the remainder of the hospital site. The site also provides training facilities to Huddersfield Town.
Most of the hospital buildings on the Storthes Hall site have been reduced to rubble, however one building, the administration remains upright but is heavily grafitied inside and is run down and dangerous to enter.
Admin 2008
Admin 1954
March 2008
I’m new and just having a look through all your wonderful stuff 
Didn’t realise it was sooo old 
I didn’t learn this till I was 11 (1981) it was a fascinating place but creepy for an 11 year old.. had an awful smell walking through the corridors..loved the revolving door in the main entrance..and after 6 months of visiting on a weekend with my mum and step dad I sometimes was allowed to pour the tea for the patients (around 2pm) from the big stainless steel teapot into the pre war cups.. my older sister who was 26 at that time had a partner who was a psychiatric nurse up there.. I absolutely loved going up there.I’m just in the early process of finding out the real reason my grandad was left in there for 50years..what I was told as a child does not add up in my adult brain! I’m still finding my way around this site.. so apologies for contributing nothing to and old thread lol 
