Storey Home
STOREY HOME, ASHTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119699
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Storey Home
- Statutory Address:
- STOREY HOME, ASHTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119699
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Storey Home
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOREY HOME, ASHTON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- STOREY HOME, ASHTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47453 60018
Details
SD 46 SE LANCASTER ASHTON ROAD
4685-1/1/10001 Storey Home
- II
Nurses Home. 1897, with late C20 minor alterations. By Paley and Austin, architects, of Lancaster, for Sir Thomas Storey, patron, as part of the Lancaster Asylum complex, now the Royal Albert Hospital. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, with hipped roofs covered in Westmorland slate. FRONT (east) ELEVATION: 7 bay front, the centre 3 bays of 3 storeys, with 2 storey advanced wings. Off-centre entrance within advanced canted porch, with semi-circular headed doorway with moulded surround, and panelled double doors each with glazing within decorative grilles to the curved upper part. Above the doorway, a gablet bearing a coat of arms and motto. To the left, a tall 3-light window, with ogee-headed light, above which is set a plaque commemorating the erection of the building by Sir Thomas Storey in the 50th year of the reign of Queen Victoria (1897). Above this, a canted bay window, the roof of which forms part of a narrow mansard. A small gabled dormer is set above the bay window, flanked by 2 large mullion and transom windows beneath hall - hipped dormer roofs. Penetrating the right-hand slope of each dormer are ashlar chimney stacks. At either end of the main range are lower advanced wings, each with 2 ground floor sash windows set within ashlar surrounds. Above, a centrally-placed coupled sash window with an overlight set within a half-hipped end dormer.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but known at time of listing to contain original door and window joinery, decorative moulded plaster cornices and plasterwork to entrance archways, and, in the attics to the wings, exposed roof tie beams with curved braces and decorative infil to the spandrels. HISTORY: The building provided by Sir Thomas Storey was described in a contemporary report as " a house for 40 of the more intelligent girls who have completed their period of training in the institution, or are entering on their last year of residence prior to their discharge". The report suggested that " the services of these girls shall be utilised, not only doing the work of the house itself, but also in assisting in the nursing and domestic service of the Asylum".
Listing NGR: SD4745360018
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469196
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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