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Harold Court was built in 1868 as a private house for W.R.Preston, a local
solicitor and farmer. He became bankrupt in 1881, and his house was taken
over by the Shoreditch Children's Home. From 1892 until 1918 it was used as
a lunatic asylum, and on the 1898 OS map is shown as 'COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM
(Harold Court)'. The building is only 2 miles south-west of Warley, so
presumably helped to house the overflow from there.
It was later used as a TB Sanatorium, and was sold to the Essex County
Council in 1960. The building is still standing (see photos attached),
perhaps now private flats.
David Emery
Return to: The Warley Hospital Project
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