History
The estate of Pool Park (spelled Parc in Welsh) began as a deer park for the nearby Ruthin Castle. Following its time as a hunting ground, the property was passed between a series of wealthy landowners. The elegant mock-Tudor style manor house that still stands today was constructed in 1862 for the second Lord Bagot.
In 1937, the house was sold to the North Wales Counties Mental Hospital, which was in need of a second location to house overflow patients from the nearby Denbigh Insane Asylum. Pool Park held 87 patients at capacity, but in times of need had as many as 120. For a brief stint of time during World War II, the grounds also held a prisoner of war camp. By the 1970s these asylums were progressively closed down .
in 1989 pool parc closed its doors for good and in 1992 the place was bought privately by a builder to turn into apartments. After a legal battle with the local council and them rejecting planning permission he has since left this once beautiful place to sadly fall into ruin.
The Explore
As @Porker of the night and myself were in the area we thought we would pop in to this place having heard about 'the staircase', this was enough for us to say "yes please sir I love a bit of stair porn".
Once in we were face with almighty ruin and very little left to admire but we still took in the good bits that were left. All in all a well worthwhile trip but we was advised by a local that the council have given the owner his final notice to either sort the building out or bye bye, I have no idea how true this is and barely even manage to catch what she was saying as I was too busy staring at some mighty fine eye candy
not all locals are angry 
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Cheers for having a ganders
The estate of Pool Park (spelled Parc in Welsh) began as a deer park for the nearby Ruthin Castle. Following its time as a hunting ground, the property was passed between a series of wealthy landowners. The elegant mock-Tudor style manor house that still stands today was constructed in 1862 for the second Lord Bagot.
In 1937, the house was sold to the North Wales Counties Mental Hospital, which was in need of a second location to house overflow patients from the nearby Denbigh Insane Asylum. Pool Park held 87 patients at capacity, but in times of need had as many as 120. For a brief stint of time during World War II, the grounds also held a prisoner of war camp. By the 1970s these asylums were progressively closed down .
in 1989 pool parc closed its doors for good and in 1992 the place was bought privately by a builder to turn into apartments. After a legal battle with the local council and them rejecting planning permission he has since left this once beautiful place to sadly fall into ruin.
The Explore
As @Porker of the night and myself were in the area we thought we would pop in to this place having heard about 'the staircase', this was enough for us to say "yes please sir I love a bit of stair porn".
Once in we were face with almighty ruin and very little left to admire but we still took in the good bits that were left. All in all a well worthwhile trip but we was advised by a local that the council have given the owner his final notice to either sort the building out or bye bye, I have no idea how true this is and barely even manage to catch what she was saying as I was too busy staring at some mighty fine eye candy
not all locals are angry On to the pictures,
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Cheers for having a ganders
