Description

LANCASTER

SD45NE ASHTON ROAD
1685-1/2/9 (West side)
Main building at Royal Albert Farm,
Royal Albert Hospital

GV II

Farm building. Late C19. Probably by Paley and Austin. Squared
coursed sandstone rubble with green slate roof.
The main building has a wide-span roof with clerestorey
ventilation. The upper part of its west wall is open, with 6
bays separated by square stone piers which support the roof
trusses, and with the 2nd bay open to ground level to form a
cart entrance. The east wall has a narrower ventilation gap
below the eaves and the roof trusses are supported by timber
posts. In the south gable wall there is a 2nd cart entrance.
To the north is a single-storey portion which forms a link
with a range running at right angles towards the east.
The eastern end of this range is of 2 storeys and has its
gable wall facing the road. This has a 1st-floor doorway
approached by external stone steps with iron railings and with
the half-hip of the roof continued downwards as a canopy
carried on timber brackets. The north and south walls have
1st-floor window openings which project upwards above the
eaves under hipped dormer roofs carried on timber brackets.
To the south the area between this wing and the second wing
which projects towards the east is covered by a C20 corrugated
asbestos roof.
HISTORY: built as part of the ancillary buildings to the Royal
Albert Idiot Asylum, now the Royal Albert Hospital (qv), which
was completed in 1873.

Listing NGR: SD4748459864

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514360

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