AN ABANDONED 90-year-old hospital, you may recognise from film and TV is set to be repurposed as 140 flats.
The Grade II-listed art deco building, built in 1933, has been lying empty since 2006, when it was last used as a medical facility.
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Ravenscourt Park Hospital in Hammersmith, West London is set to get a new lease of life thanks to property developers TT Group.
As well as the flats, parts of the hospital will also be transformed into a 65-bed care home, and community spaces.
Opened by King George V, the red-brick facility was originally called the Royal Masonic Hospital and picked up a prestigious architecture prize for being the “best building of the year” thanks to its curved balconies and impressive sculptures.
The 260-bed facility was Europe‘s largest independent acute hospital, but was closed for 8 years in 1994, until it opened as an NHS hospital in 2002.
Due to its stunning architecture, the hospital has featured in a variety of films and TV shows, including Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989 and 1991), The Queen (2006) and the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black (2024).
As well as being used as an on-screen hospital, it has also been used as a bank, a luxury hotel and corporate boardrooms and has doubled for locations in New York and Ireland.
In May, the hospital won location of the year at the Global Production Awards 2025 in Cannes.
TT Group, which acquired the 3.87-acre site in 2022, will transform former wards, treatment blocks and administrative buildings into flats ranging in size from small studios to family apartments.
The apartment blocks will also have communal workspaces, private gardens and lounge areas.
The hospital grounds will also have landscaped gardens that will be opened to the public for the first time.
Many of the stunning architectural features of the hospital will remain, including welded steel semi-circular sun balconies and two Greek statues found by the main entrance.
An addition to the hospital, built in the 1970s, is set to be transformed into a modern purpose built care home.
Dates for construction and completion are yet to be announced.
Duncan Brisbane, Development Director at TT Group, said: “The former Ravenscourt Park Hospital’s revival is long overdue, with planning approval ensuring this important building can finally be brought back into long-term use.
“Alongside a best-in-class project team, we now look forward to bringing the proposals to life, building on our track record for delivering much-needed housing on some of London’s highest-quality brownfield sites.”
Trevor Morriss, Principal at SPPARC, said: “As one of Britain’s very first examples of the international modernist movement, this landmark of inter-war design is deserving of a new use that honours both its historic and architectural significance.
“With every aspect of the masterplan designed to respect and pay tribute to the original Art Deco design, the planning consent will ensure that the former hospital can once again return to meaningful use that puts an end to nearly 20 years of vacancy.”
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