Loring Hall

Loring Hall is a private mental health care facility in North Cray, London Borough of Bexley.

[5] From 1811 the house was the country residence of British Foreign Secretary, Viscount Castlereagh, later Marquess of Londonderry.

In 1822 Castlereagh, after suffering a possible nervous breakdown, committed suicide there by cutting his own throat, aged 53.

[9] In 1939 the building and grounds were purchased by Goldsmiths College and Woollet Hall was renamed Loring Hall after the first warden of Goldsmiths College, Captain William Loring, who was killed at Gallipoli during the First World War.

[10] Goldsmiths College sold the hall and grounds to Bupa in the 1980s, who converted it into a care home.

Blue plaque
The west face of Loring Hall, from Foots Cray Meadows .