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Latitude: 54.0435 / 54°2'36"N
Longitude: -2.7984 / 2°47'54"W
OS Eastings: 347818
OS Northings: 461132
OS Grid: SD478611
Mapcode National: GBR 8PWP.Y8
Mapcode Global: WH846.ZMMJ
Plus Code: 9C6V26V2+CM
Entry Name: Nurses' Home
Listing Date: 18 February 1970
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1194927
English Heritage Legacy ID: 383037
ID on this website: 101194927
Location: Primrose, 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 Thomas
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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
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