Having seen a few photos from parts of this place floating around I thought I'd factor it in to the end of a trip if we had time to see it, and it turns out we did, and it worked out very well. The larger much more impressive part across the road now has security living in it, but these parts on the other side of the road they seemingly don't care about at all. The area is composed of a large, two storey roughly U-shaped building with the kitchens and restaurant at one end, accomodation rooms on the top floor and a series of larger rooms, club facilities, a shop and treatment rooms etc along the ground floor. Sat in the middle of the U is a smaller two storey building which was entirely composed of medical rooms and small ward type rooms. There is also a large two storey temporary portabin type building which I totally ignored. A little further down the road is the former motor vehicle maintenance facility and some offices/archive rooms which are filled with thousands of blueprints and other pieces of paperwork.
Headley Court was originally a farmhouse, until in 1899 an imposing, impressive mansion was constructed for Lord Cunliffe, at the time chairman of the Bank of England. During World War II it was home to the VII Corps and then later Canadian Corps. Following the war it was converted into an RAF and Joint Forces medical rehabilitation centre, which, over the years, treated many notable service personnel and aimed to return everyone to full health. In July 2014 it was announced the services at Headley Court were going to be transferred to a new facility at Stanford Hall, which opened it's doors in 2018. In May 2019 the site was bought by Angle Property who intended to redevelop the site, demolishing many of the ancillary and more modern buildings to replace them with housing. In 2020 the NHS Seacole Centre opened on site treating non-critical COVID patients and offering rehabilitation services to people post-COVID. As such the housing development was put on the back burner and nothing has happened since.
This part of the site is weird, parts of it are heavily decayed whereas other areas look like they closed yesterday, other rooms are filled with graffiti but rooms directly next to them are untouched and super clean, however given how hilariously easy it is at the moment I can see it going downhill rather fast. The motor vehicle facility and offices are absolutely wrecked and look to have been closed a lot longer than 2018, however they do contain a lot of very interesting paperwork and blueprints to have a leaf through. Overall a good way to end a day out I badly needed.
Thanks for looking
Headley Court was originally a farmhouse, until in 1899 an imposing, impressive mansion was constructed for Lord Cunliffe, at the time chairman of the Bank of England. During World War II it was home to the VII Corps and then later Canadian Corps. Following the war it was converted into an RAF and Joint Forces medical rehabilitation centre, which, over the years, treated many notable service personnel and aimed to return everyone to full health. In July 2014 it was announced the services at Headley Court were going to be transferred to a new facility at Stanford Hall, which opened it's doors in 2018. In May 2019 the site was bought by Angle Property who intended to redevelop the site, demolishing many of the ancillary and more modern buildings to replace them with housing. In 2020 the NHS Seacole Centre opened on site treating non-critical COVID patients and offering rehabilitation services to people post-COVID. As such the housing development was put on the back burner and nothing has happened since.
This part of the site is weird, parts of it are heavily decayed whereas other areas look like they closed yesterday, other rooms are filled with graffiti but rooms directly next to them are untouched and super clean, however given how hilariously easy it is at the moment I can see it going downhill rather fast. The motor vehicle facility and offices are absolutely wrecked and look to have been closed a lot longer than 2018, however they do contain a lot of very interesting paperwork and blueprints to have a leaf through. Overall a good way to end a day out I badly needed.
Thanks for looking
