[3] The site chosen for the hospital had previously been occupied by Victoria House (of which the main block still remains), the former home of Benjamin Broadbent, a leading businessman, master builder, and architect, whose works were well renowned across the Midlands at the time.

The house had to be demolished due to dry rot, and the grounds were used for the Leicester Towers Hospital.

[2] The hospital, which was designed by Edward Loney Stephens using a corridor layout with compact arrow additions, opened as the Leicester Borough Lunatic Asylum in September 1869.

[4] Three detached villa properties, built in the 1930s, were made available to the Emergency Medical Service during the Second World War.

[5] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in April 2013.