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Former Victorian asylum to be converted
LARCHWOOD House, a former Victorian asylum building in Haywards Heath, is to be converted into four houses.
The large Victorian villa off Colwell Road is to the west of Southdowns Park, a complex of flats converted from the Sussex County Lunatic Asylum – later renamed St Francis Hospital.
After the hospital closed in 1995 the buildings were converted to flats. Larchwood, a grade II listed villa nearby, was a private house used by the asylum's superintendents including Charles Lockhart Robertson, the first man to run the asylum after it opened in 1859.
Larchwood was later used as a mental health unit for children but closed a few years ago because the building was considered unfit for purpose.
Read the full story in the Mid Sussex Times
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