An area to the west of Storthes Hall Mansion, closer to
Farnley Tyas, was chosen as a site for a
psychiatric hospital in the early 20th century. The facility, which was designed by J. Vickers-Edwards using a compact arrow layout, opened as the Fourth West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in 1904. During the
Second World War the patient population swelled to over 3,000 people as the hospital struggled to cope with patients being transferred from hospitals elsewhere as the
War Office requisitioned hospitals to treat injured soldiers. The facility joined the
National Health Service as Storthes Hall Hospital in 1948. After the introduction of
Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1992. Much of the area previously occupied by the hospital was developed as a student
campus, the Storthes Hall Park Student Village, for the
University of Huddersfield in the mid-1990s. A former hospital building, previously known as "The Arboretum" and now known as "The Venue", was extended for use by the students as a social club in 2010. ==Gallery==