ADMINISTRATION BLOCK AT ASTLEY HOSPITAL

ADMINISTRATION BLOCK AT ASTLEY HOSPITAL, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1163258
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: ADMINISTRATION BLOCK AT ASTLEY HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: ADMINISTRATION BLOCK AT ASTLEY HOSPITAL, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1163258
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: ADMINISTRATION BLOCK AT ASTLEY HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: ADMINISTRATION BLOCK AT ASTLEY HOSPITAL, CHURCH ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ADMINISTRATION BLOCK AT ASTLEY HOSPITAL, CHURCH ROAD

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District:: Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 69869 00902

Details

TYLDESLEY CHURCH ROAD SD 60 SE (north-west side) 2/43 Administration block at Astley Hospital (formerly listed 18/7/66 as Dam House) II* House, now hospital. Recut stone above entrance reads "erected by Adam Mort and Margaret Mort 1650" but with extensive additions to rear in early and late C19. Rendered brick and brick with stone dressing and slate roof. 5 x 3 bays with 3 storeys. The C19 ranges which make up the quadrangle are largely of 2 storeys and continue to use mullioned windows and vernacular motifs. The elevation consists of gabled crosswings which project to either side of the house-part, a 3-storey porch within the left angle and an additional bay to the left. The porch bay has a studded, cross-boarded door with Doric columns, an open pediment and a fanlight. Each crosswing has a canted 3- storey high bay window with enlarged openings on the ground floor. Otherwise the majority of the double-chamfered stone mullion windows appear to be unaltered (on front only). They have from 2 to 6 lights and the principal rooms have transoms and hoodmoulds. 3 gables and projecting chimney stacks to side elevations. Rear is an extension of early C19 as is the 4-bay wing to rear right which includes a chapel at first floor level. The other 2 sides of the quadrangle are in stock brick, of late C19, and include a coach house. Interior: altered on the lower storeys but retaining many original and Regency features including an inglenook fireplace in the left room, beams, elaborate Gothickdoor surrounds and doors. Splendid Gothic roof trusses to chapel. The upper floor retains 6 and 2-panel doors with strap hinges and timber-framed crosswalls with wattle and daub infill are fully exposed. Brick vaulted cellar - C19. Victoria County History of Lancashire, 1907.

Listing NGR: SD6986900902

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Legacy System number:: 213512
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1906)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.