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Lodge to Royal Albert Hospital

A Grade II Listed Building in Lancaster, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.0327 / 54°1'57"N

Longitude: -2.8025 / 2°48'9"W

OS Eastings: 347531

OS Northings: 459935

OS Grid: SD475599

Mapcode National: GBR 8PWT.14

Mapcode Global: WH846.XWMT

Plus Code: 9C6V25MW+3X

Entry Name: Lodge to Royal Albert Hospital

Listing Date: 30 November 1970

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1219861

English Heritage Legacy ID: 383045

ID on this website: 101219861

Location: The Greaves, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1

County: Lancashire

District: Lancaster

Electoral Ward/Division: Scotforth West

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Lancaster

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Lancaster St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description



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

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