| Towers Hospital | |
| Location: | Humberstone |
| Region: | Leicestershire |
| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 52.6498°N -1.0911°W |
| Healthcare: | NHS |
| Type: | Specialist |
| Speciality: | Psychiatric Hospital |
| Emergency: | N/A |
| Founded: | 1869 |
| Closed: | 2013 |
| Map Type: | Leicestershire |
The Towers Hospital was a mental health facility in Humberstone, Leicestershire, England. The administration building, which became known as George Hine House, is a Grade II listed building.
The site chosen for the hospital had previously been occupied by Victoria House, the former home of Benjamin Broadbent, a master builder.[1] 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.[2] An extension to the male ward, designed by George Thomas Hine, was completed in 1883 and a corresponding extension to the female ward, also designed by Hine, was completed in 1890.[2] A bath house, also designed by Hine, was added in 1913.[2] The facility became the Leicester City Mental Hospital in the 1920s.[2] Three detached villa properties, built in the 1930s, were made available to the Emergency Medical Service during the Second World War.[2] The facility joined the National Health Service as the Towers Hospital in 1948.[3]
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.[2] The administration building, which became known as George Hine House, was converted for use as a Sikh free school in 2014.[4] Several of the other buildings, including the original main block with superintendent's residence above, have been redeveloped for residential use.[2]