Built 1876–77 Reference no. 1359108 | Designated 14 February 1975 | |
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Ellern mede
Ellern Mede is the name of an eating disorder service which now operates from several locations in the London area. It is also the trading name for the company Oaktree Forest Limited. Its current main inpatient hospital is Ellern Mede Ridgeway in Holcombe Hill, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill London NW7.
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Historically, the service took its name because, from its formation in 2000, it was originally situated at a large detached house with this name 'Ellern Mede' located at 31 Totteridge Common in the London Borough of Barnet, N20. This page was originally created to inform about the house itself, and so visitors looking for the current Ellern Mede service should not use the Totteridge address. The former building used by the service was built between 1876 and 1877 by the architect Richard Norman Shaw for businessman William Austin.
Design
The design is described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "one of Shaw's asymmetrical Old English L-plan compositions...big, bold half-timbered gable over the entrance, and broad tile-hung flank with half-hipped gable, all anchored by tall chimneys".
History
In recent years Ellern Mede has been a nursing home, and the Ellern Mede Centre for Eating Disorders. The eating disorders centre has now moved to Mill Hill, where it opened in May 2011 as the Ellern Mede Ridgeway Service for Eating Disorders.