This location was originally a farmhouse, until in 1899 an imposing, impressive mansion was constructed for an important British banker, and subsequently during World War II it became home to numerous regiments. Following the war it was converted into an RAF and Joint Forces medical rehabilitation centre, which, over the years, treated many notable service personnel and aimed to return everyone to full health. In July 2014 it was announced the services were going to be transferred to a new facility, which opened it's doors in 2018. In May 2019 the site was bought by a property developer who intended to redevelop the site, demolishing many of the ancillary and more modern buildings to replace them with housing. In 2020 during the COVID pandemic a temporary hospital opened on site in parts of the older buildings treating non-critical COVID patients and offering rehabilitation services to people post-COVID. As such the housing development was put on the back burner and nothing has happened since.

The old manor house parts currently have live-in security so aren't particularly accessible, the areas I explored are all across on another part of the site. There is a weird mix of conditions across the buildings, parts of it are heavily decayed whereas other areas look like they closed yesterday, other rooms are filled with graffiti but rooms directly next to them are untouched and super clean, however given how hilariously easy it is at the moment I can see it going downhill rather fast. The motor vehicle facility and offices are absolutely wrecked and look to have been closed a lot longer than 2018, however they do contain a lot of very interesting paperwork and blueprints to have a leaf through. Overall a good way to end a day out I badly needed.

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Thanks for looking

Despite being in fairly good shape, with sites like these it's weird to think they were in use fairly recently.

Great set as always, that long blue hallway is so calming to look at.