Lodge to Royal Albert Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1970. Gateway, lodge.
Lodge to Royal Albert Hospital
- WRENN ID
- old-sill-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1970
- Type
- Gateway, lodge
- Address
- Lodge to Royal Albert Hospital, Ashton Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 475 599
- Coordinates
- 54.03273, -2.80255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge to Royal Albert Hospital is a gateway and lodge built around 1873, designed by Paley and Austin. It features snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, two bands of red sandstone, and a green slate roof, showcasing the Gothic Revival style. The main part of the gateway is taller, with a wide pointed arch over the carriageway, which is chamfered in two orders, and a smaller roll-moulded pedestrian arch to the right, both fitted with wrought-iron gates.
On the first floor, there are three trefoiled single-light windows beneath a hipped roof adorned with lead finials and crested ridge tiles. A chimney to the right has two bands of red sandstone. Adjacent to the gateway is part of the lodge, which has lower eaves and features a stone canted bay window with three mullioned lights at the front and one on 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 accessed from the walkway, which is separated from the carriageway by two chamfered pointed arches. The right-hand gable wall includes a two-light stair window towards the right, with a quatrefoil below a pointed relieving arch, and a two-light window to the left that illuminates the upper storey.
This structure was built as the gateway to the Royal Albert Idiot Asylum, now known as the Royal Albert Hospital, which was completed in 1873.
Local climate
Lodge to Royal Albert Hospital sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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