HELLingly

Hellingly Asylum in Sussex was one of the most advanced asylum designs ever constructed. It opened its doors in 1903 and then closed them permanently in 1994. Most of the psychiatric hospital is to be replaced by new housing.

Patients and staff all lived in red brick buildings of this gigantic asylum. Men and women lived in separate wings. It was also a place where women who had children out of wedlock were incarcerated. There were big windows to let in as much light as possible.

The decadent ballroom and theater, facing the stage, near the front right door, there was a hatch to creepy underground passageways.

For over 20 years, Hellingly has been dying, fading, and peeling, there is a lovely quality that makes you shudder about the ruination. Some explorers have reported hearing unexplained noises up and down the many corridors and the many padded-cell rooms.

Hellingly Asylum had its own morgue and body fridge. Besides having a farm, train, water-tower, clothing shop, boiler-room, chapel, dentist, there was also a Hellingly Hair Salon, which has been heavily vandalised, and there has been substantial fire damage too.

There is something utterly creepy about seeing a child’s wheelchair in the decaying mental hospital. Hellingly had a special building just for “mentally defective” children, back in a time when people were locked away in isolation. Other facility care therapeutics included shock treatments.

State of decay - 26 years of nature reclaiming Hellingly. Paint peeled, ceiling crumbled…


This info came from the WebUrbanist page.

If you want to stay updated with the progress of destruction and demolition, Hellingly Asylum has a Facebook page.