| Carlton Hayes Hospital | |
| Map Type: | Leicestershire |
| Coordinates: | 52.58°N -1.21°W |
| Region: | Narborough |
| State: | England |
| Country: | UK |
| Healthcare: | NHS |
| Type: | Public |
| Emergency: | No |
| Founded: | 1907 |
| Closed: | 1995 |
Carlton Hayes Hospital, Narborough, Leicestershire was the psychiatric hospital of Leicestershire from 1907 to 1995.[1]
The complex was built to the designs of Samuel Perkins Pick (1858-1919),[2] a well-known Leicester architect, in the Art Nouveau style as the Leicestershire County Asylum and was officially opened on 1 October 1907.[3] It became known as the Leicestershire and Rutland Mental Hospital in 1914.[3]
Significant extensions designed by William Keay were completed in the 1930s.[4] It became Carlton Hayes Hospital in 1939 and joined the National Health Service in 1948.[3] Philip Larkin's mother was a patient in the hospital in 1956: he described it as "large and dingy as a London terminus".[5]
The complex was demolished after 1996, and the site redeveloped by the Alliance & Leicester Building Society for their new headquarters.[6]