Including the wings, it presented a frontage of five hundred and forty feet.

Each wing had a small cupola; and, in the centre of the pile rose a larger dome, surmounted by a gilded ball and vane.

The asylum was approached by a broad gravel walk, leading through a garden edged on either side by a stone balustrade, and shaded by tufted trees.

A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the well-known lines:-- "Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand, _Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand_." Internally, it was divided by two long galleries, one over the other.
These galleries were separated in the middle by iron grates.

The wards on the right were occupied by male patients, on the left by the female.
In the centre of the upper gallery was a spacious saloon, appropriated to the governors of the asylum.