Nurses' Home
NURSES' HOME, ASHTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194927
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Nurses' Home
- Statutory Address:
- NURSES' HOME, ASHTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194927
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Nurses' Home
- Statutory Address 1:
- NURSES' HOME, ASHTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- NURSES' HOME, SOUTH 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:
- NURSES' HOME, ASHTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- NURSES' HOME, SOUTH 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 47818 61132
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761SE ASHTON ROAD 1685-1/8/5 Nurses' Home 18/02/70
GV II
Nurses' home, originally a railway station and railway company offices. 1840, altered C20. Designed by Edwin Gwyther of Birmingham. Sandstone ashlar, with ashlar dressings and slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan with rear extensions. 2 storeys and 5 bays under an eaves cornice, with a pediment over the slightly projecting central bay. Glazed central porch has coupled Ionic columns supporting a plain entablature. All the windows have moulded architraves and 12-pane sashes, those on the ground floor have cornices carried on scrolled brackets. INTERIOR: reputed to contain visible remains of entrances to platforms. HISTORY: originally built as the Penny Street terminus of the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway. In 1846 the present station (on a through line) near the Castle was opened by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company (Station Road, qv), which took over the running of the line to Preston in 1849 and closed the Penny Street station to passenger traffic. (Nuttall K & Rawlings T: Railways Around Lancaster: Clapham, Lancaster: 1980-: 7).
Listing NGR: SD4781861132
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383037
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Nuttall, , Rawlings, , Railways around Lancaster, (1980), 7
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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