[1] The buildings were designed in a Tudor Revival architecture style by James Bunstone Bunning, and the facility accommodated 220 patients.

The influx of private patients resulted in a budget surplus, and enabled expansion and improvements of the asylum's facilities.

The third superintendent was Dr. Robert Hunter Steen, who was in turn succeeded in 1924 by Dr. William Robinson.

Robinson retired in 1942, but due to wartime staff shortages his permanent replacement, Dr. Hardwick, was not appointed until 1946; on the takeover by the National Health Service his new title became Physician Superintendent, which brought additional powers and responsibilities.

[7] Among its most famous patients was the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, who arrived in 1922 and resided there until his death.