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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
Tagged with: Gatehouse
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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