Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne - Bracknell Forest (UA)

A mid-C19 asylum designed by Joshua Jebb with rare survival of large kitchen garden as the focus for therapeutic work. Its cascading walled gardens and institutional farm are highly significant. With considerable harm to significance from the new hospital development the remaining hospital complex and ornamented farmland is vulnerable to allocated development proposals. An updated historic landscape appraisal should inform a Conservation Management Plan required by the local plan and close liaison is welcomed to minimise further harm, enhance significance and restore landscape features.

Site Details

Designated Site Name:

Broadmoor Hospital

Heritage Category:

Registered Park and Garden grade II

List Entry Number:

1001401

Local Planning Authority:

Bracknell Forest (UA)

Site Type:

Gardens parks and urban spaces > Landscape park

Location

Unitary Authority:

Bracknell Forest (UA)

Parish:

Crowthorne

Parliamentary Constituency:

Bracknell

Region:

London and South East

Assessment Information

Assessment Type:

Park and garden

Condition:

Extensive significant problems

Vulnerability:

High

Trend:

Declining

Ownership:

Health authority

Designation:

Registered Park and Garden grade II, LB grade II