Royal Lancaster Infirmary (Original Building)
ROYAL LANCASTER INFIRMARY (ORIGINAL BUILDING), ASHTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194932
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Lancaster Infirmary (Original Building)
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL LANCASTER INFIRMARY (ORIGINAL BUILDING), ASHTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194932
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Lancaster Infirmary (Original Building)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL LANCASTER INFIRMARY (ORIGINAL BUILDING), ASHTON ROAD
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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:
- ROYAL LANCASTER INFIRMARY (ORIGINAL BUILDING), 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 47747 61198
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761SE ASHTON ROAD 1685-1/8/12 (West side) Royal Lancaster Infirmary (original building)
GV II
Hospital. 1896, altered and extended 1929. Designed by Paley and Austin. Sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. Free Renaissance style. Originally a reversed L-shaped plan arranged symmetrically around an octagonal 4-stage entrance tower, and altered by the construction of a long extension on the left. Above the entrance doorway is a square niche framed with strapwork and filled with a Coade stone plaque, representing the Good Samaritan. This was previously placed above the entrance of the dispensaries at No.19 Castle Hill (qv) and No.6 Thurnham Street (qv). The upper faces of the tower above the doorway are blind, but on the third floor an aedicule contains the royal coat of arms. On either side of the entrance the faces of the tower are canted backwards and have a rectangular window on the ground and first floors. All the windows have quadrant-moulded architraves and a keystone and are sashed with glazing bars. On the second floor is a bull's eye window, and on the third a round-headed window; above is a balustrade which hides the base of an ogee-shaped dome. To the right of the tower is the 2-bay return wall of the right-hand original block, which has 2 storeys, plus gabled attics, and 5 wide bays arranged as a recessed centre and 2 cross-wings. These have paired windows on the ground and first floors and a stepped 3-light window under a Flemish gable. The central bay has a similar gable and paired windows on the first floor, but the ground floor has a canted bay window. To the far right is a single-storey wing containing an entrance with a battlemented lintel and a datestone, all set under a Flemish gable, which has a bull's eye window.
Listing NGR: SD4774761198
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383048
- 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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