Barn at Royal Albert Farm, Royal Albert Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. A C19 Farm building. 1 related planning application.
Barn at Royal Albert Farm, Royal Albert Hospital
- WRENN ID
- plain-pewter-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- Farm building
- Address
- Barn at Royal Albert Farm, Royal Albert Hospital, Ashton Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 474 598
- Coordinates
- 54.03236, -2.80315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Royal Albert Farm, part of the Royal Albert Hospital, is a late 19th-century farm building, likely designed by the architectural firm Paley and Austin. It is constructed from squared coursed sandstone rubble and features a green slate roof. The east wall has a central cart entrance with a segmental arch and a surround made of rock-faced sandstone. The roof extends over the entrance, forming a slated canopy supported by timber brackets. There are two rows of slit vents, a blocked wide entrance with a plain lintel on the left, and a doorway on the right. The ridge of the barn is topped with two metal ventilators. The north and south walls include pitching holes beneath their gables. A lean-to that was attached to the west wall has been removed due to fire damage, and the openings have been filled with brickwork. This barn was built as part of the ancillary buildings for the Royal Albert Idiot Asylum, which was completed in 1873 and is now known as the Royal Albert Hospital.
Local climate
Barn at Royal Albert Farm, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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