The central bay featured a stone panel engraved with the Royal cypher of King George VI.

[2] In the late 1970s, the UK Government decided that such specialist support was no longer required, the residents were re-housed and the hostel was closed.

The former hostel was then transferred to the ownership of the Lord Chancellor's Department and converted into a courthouse at a cost of £4.4 million.

[9] Notable cases heard at the court have included the trial and conviction, in 2011, of 24 members a notorious English football hooligan firm known as the Chelsea Headhunters, who were accused of taking part in violence, which resulted in several people being injured, including a police officer whose jaw was broken.

[10][11] Cases also included the trial and acquittal, in 2013, of sisters, Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, former personal assistants to Nigella Lawson and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi, who were accused of using their credit cards, specifically without special authorisation, on the account of Saatchi's private company.