This facility was one of the establishments commissioned by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to deal with chronic cases.

[1] The hospital, which was designed by Arthur and Christopher Harston using a dual pavilion layout, opened as the Tooting Bec Asylum in January 1903.

[1] It became Tooting Bec Mental Hospital in 1924 and, after suffering some bomb damage during the Second World War, it joined the National Health Service as Tooting Bec Hospital in 1948.

[2] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in July 1995.

[1] The buildings were subsequently demolished and the site redeveloped by Fairview Homes for residential use as "Heritage Park".