Nurses' Home is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1970. Nurses' home.
Nurses' Home
- WRENN ID
- tall-timber-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1970
- Type
- Nurses' home
- Address
- Nurses' Home, South Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 478 611
- Coordinates
- 54.04351, -2.79837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nurses' Home is a building that was originally a railway station and railway company offices, constructed in 1840 and altered in the 20th century. It was designed by Edwin Gwyther of Birmingham. The structure is made of sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings and has a slate hipped roof. It features a double-depth plan with rear extensions and stands two storeys tall with five bays beneath an eaves cornice. A pediment crowns the slightly projecting central bay. The central porch is glazed and supported by coupled Ionic columns that hold up a plain entablature. All windows are fitted with moulded architraves and 12-pane sashes, with those on the ground floor featuring cornices supported by scrolled brackets.
Inside, the building is reputed to contain visible remains of entrances to platforms. Historically, it was built as the Penny Street terminus of the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway. In 1846, the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company opened a new station on a through line near the Castle, taking over the operation of the line to Preston in 1849 and closing the Penny Street station to passenger traffic.
Local climate
Nurses' Home 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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