the hospital started life as a work house erected in 1852 from designs by the Architect Fred William Porter and held 170 people and was then transferred to the NHS as a hospital for learning difficulty's there was a lot a allegations of abuse in this hospital http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/848468.disgraced_hospital_to_close/ the hospital then closed around 2006 the modern half of the site has been removed just leaving the work house left the floors are very bad in this place and not the best feeling in the place