You'd Be Mad to Miss It ; Developers Are Discovering That Victorian Asylums Have It All: Beautiful Architecture, Green Spaces and Transport Links, Says David Spittles

Evening Standard - London › March 16, 2005

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THERE is method in their madness.

A consortium of housebuilder s buys a Victorian asylum and turns it into a leafy, gated estate where the new residents pay a premium to live behind bars.

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You'd Be Mad to Miss It ; Developers Are Discovering That Victorian Asylums Have It All: Beautiful Architecture, Green Spaces and Transport Links, Says David Spittles

It has happened previously at Repton, in Chigwell, Colney Hatch, in Friern Barnet, and at Royal Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water; all pla...

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