Abandoned Asylum Hospital. Thorpe St Andrew. Norwich, Norfolk

, abandoned, asylum, norwich Built in around 1881 on the site of a cricket ground and known as St. Andrews Asylum Annexe these buildings were part of a separate auxiliary asylum for the main Asylum which was several hundred yards to the south of this site which can still be seen in it s entirety, although now converted into residential properties. The buildings were to be of somewhat plain, simple and comparatively cheap construction, later described as a sort of gobetween the Asylum and the Workhouse. Designed by the architects Cornish and Gaymer, they were modelled on Metropolitan Asylums Board institutions at Leavesden and Caterham. They comprised a twostorey H shape with large and rather barnlike male and female wards linked, or rather separated, by an administrative crosssection, behind which lay a single storey complex of kitchens and staff rooms. Costing 33, 920, they accommodated 250 patients, two and a half times the original capacity. Chronic lunatics, imbeci