[1] The complex was built to the designs of Samuel Perkins Pick (1858-1919),[2] a well-known Leicester architect, in the Art Nouveau style as the Leicestershire County Asylum and was officially opened on 1 October 1907.

[3] Significant extensions designed by William Keay were completed in the 1930s.

[4] It became Carlton Hayes Hospital in 1939 and joined the National Health Service in 1948.

[3] Philip Larkin's mother was a patient in the hospital in 1956: he described it as "large and dingy as a London terminus".

[5] The complex was demolished after 1996, and the site redeveloped by the Alliance & Leicester Building Society for their new headquarters.