Site of mid 20th century borstal, 'HMP And YOI Bullwood Hall', Bullwood Hall Lane (EHER 82471)

Now destroyed. Land at Bullwood Hall was purchased in 1955 to serve as the site for a girls borstal and it was first occupied in May 1962. The wings at Bullwood Hall are very significant in the evolution of prison architecture in the 1950s and 1960s, being one of the first 'New Wave' prisons. It was first occupied as a girls borstal in May 1962 and in 1972 a new complex of buildings was added containing education, a chapel, workshops, a hall and an induction unit. Bullwood Hall is the third and last of this group and is therefore the last open landing prison built in England until the mid 1980s.

NRHE data transfer: See <1> <2>. NRHE summary description: In 1955 Bullwood Hall was purchased to serve as the site for a girls borstal and it was first occupied in May 1962. In 1972 a new complex of buildings was added containing education, a chapel, workshops, a hall and an induction unit. The wings at Bullwood Hall are very significant in the evolution of prison architecture in the 1950s and 1960s. They were constructed after the completion of HMP Everthorpe (1958) and before the first of the 'New Wave' prisons of the 1960s, HMP Blundeston (1963). Everthorpe was the first purpose-built secure prison erected in England since World War I and it borrowed many elements from late Victorian pavilion-plan prisons, including open galleries. A-wing at Hull (1958-1960) also has open landings as it was designed before the rejection of this form in the New Wave prisons which favoured floored cruciform blocks. Bullwood Hall is the third and last of this group and is therefore the last open landing prison built in England until the mid 1980s. Although Bullwood Hall predates fully developed New Wave designs, it does employ details such as the form of the windows and the size of the cells which were universally adopted in the 1960s.