Description

LANCASTER

SD46SE QUERNMORE ROAD
1685-1/1/254 (South side (off))
24/01/94 Moor Hospital, Blocks 40, 41, 42, 44
and 46
(Formerly Listed as:
QUERNMOOR ROAD
Moor Hospital, Blocks 40, 41, 42, 44
and 46)

GV II*

County lunatic asylum, now the nucleus of the 'Old Side' of
the Moor Hospital. 1816. By Thomas Standen, and extended in
stages until c1850. Sandstone ashlar with hipped slate roofs
under relatively recent asbestos sheeting. In plan the
original U-shaped block of 1816 has a 5-bay centre facing
north with 5-bay wings to each side and 18-bay rear wings
projecting south from them; projecting at right angles from
the southern ends of the rear wings are 11-bay wings of c1840,
while two 11-bay wings (dating from c1850) project northwards
from the original facade. Only these parts are of special
interest.
The main facade has a slightly projecting centre of 2 storeys
and an attic above a basement with a 4-column Tuscan Doric
portico bearing in its pediment a panel inscribed with the
date 'MDCCCXVI'; it has an eaves cornice, a hipped roof, and 2
chimney stacks, each of 16 flues. The basement and ground
floor have chamfered rustication topped by a pulvinated frieze
which forms a sill band to the second floor windows. The
triglyph frieze of the pediment continues as a plain deep band
across the outer bays. The openings in the ground floor have
semicircular heads, though the slightly recessed windows have
flat lintels while the door has a fanlight. All the other
windows have plain reveals and are sashed with glazing bars
(12 and 6 panes).
The 5-bay side wings have only 2 storeys, with a plain band
between them, and windows with plain reveals. On each side the
fourth bay from the centre (which lights the long corridor of
the rear wings) has a tripartite window on each floor. All
these windows have recent joinery.
The wings projecting northwards to left and right have 2
storeys and are of 11 bays with a 3-bay projection in the
centre and a 4-bay projection at the outer end. Their northern
facades are each of 5 bays. The right-hand facade (Block 40)
has altered joinery, blocked window openings to the outer
bays, and a central doorway with flanking pilasters and
lights. The left-hand facade retains glazing bar sashes. The
tripartite central window on the first floor has pilasters as
mullions and has blind outer lights. The central doorway has
an architrave, flanking lights, pilasters, and a triglyph
frieze. A Tuscan porch breaks forwards in front of the door
and has a blocking course above the cornice.

Listing NGR: SD4922861473

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531633

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Recommended Books

• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)