Lodge to Royal Albert Hospital
LODGE TO ROYAL ALBERT HOSPITAL, ASHTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219861
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge to Royal Albert Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- LODGE TO ROYAL ALBERT HOSPITAL, ASHTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219861
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge to Royal Albert Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- LODGE TO ROYAL ALBERT HOSPITAL, 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:
- LODGE TO ROYAL ALBERT HOSPITAL, 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 47531 59935
Details
LANCASTER
SD45NE ASHTON ROAD 1685-1/2/11 (East side) 30/11/70 Lodge to Royal Albert Hospital
GV II
Gateway and lodge. c1873. Designed by Paley and Austin. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, 2 bands of red sandstone, and green slate roof. Gothic Revival style. Main part of gateway is taller, with a wide pointed arch over the carriageway, chamfered in 2 orders, and a smaller roll-moulded pedestrian arch to the right. Both have wrought-iron gates. On the 1st floor are 3 trefoiled single-light windows under a hipped roof with lead finials and crested ridge tiles. Chimney to right with 2 bands of red sandstone. To its right is a part of the lodge which has lower eaves above a stone canted bay window which has 3 mullioned lights to the front and one to each side, all with shouldered arches. The right-hand gable is coped. Above the carriageway between the wide arches is a beamed timber floor. The lodge is entered from the walkway, which is separated from the carriageway by 2 chamfered pointed arches. The right-hand gable wall has a 2-light stair window towards the right, with a quatrefoil below a pointed relieving arch, and a 2-light window to the left lighting the upper storey. HISTORY: built as the gateway to the Royal Albert Idiot Asylum, now the Royal Albert Hospital (qv), which was completed in 1873.
Listing NGR: SD4753159935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383045
- 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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