Work started on the hospital in 1873. It was designed by Robert Griffiths using a corridor layout and opened as the Northampton Mental Hospital in 1876. It had joined the
National Health Service in 1948 and two female patient villas were completed in 1954. Following the introduction of
Care in the Community in the early 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1995. The children's block and the superintendents' house were developed by
Taylor Wimpey for residential use between 2005 and 2008 and a small area was applied for the construction of
Berrywood Hospital, a modern mental health facility. In August 2014, over 80 Firefighters responded to an emergency call as a large fire broke out. == Gallery ==