Ellern Mede

For the pond, see Totteridge Common. For the school, see List of schools in the London Borough of Barnet.

Ellern Mede is a specialist private provider of eating disorder services in England. It runs two hospitals in North London and one in Rotherham. The hospital in Warwick Road, Barnet opened in 2017.^[2] The service takes referrals from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services^[3] for children with anorexia.^[4]

Ellern Mede
Location of Ellern Mede in Greater London
Location	Totteridge Common, Barnet, North London, England
Coordinates	51°37′53.45″N 0°13′11″W
Built	1876–77
Architect	Richard Norman Shaw
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name	Ellern Mede
Designated	14 February 1975[1]
Reference no.	1359108

Building

The company is named after Ellern Mede, a large detached house at 31 Totteridge Common in the London Borough of Barnet, N20.^[1] It was built between 1876 and 1877 by the architect Richard Norman Shaw for businessman William Austin.^[5]

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".^[6]

History

In recent years Ellern Mede has been a nursing home,^[7] and the Ellern Mede Centre for Eating Disorders was founded in the building in 2000, before moving to Mill Hill in May 2011.^[8]