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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1970
- Type
- Nurses' home
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LANCASTER
SD4761SE ASHTON ROAD 1685-1/8/5 Nurses' Home 18/02/70
GV II
Nurses' home, originally a railway station and railway company offices. 1840, altered C20. Designed by Edwin Gwyther of Birmingham. Sandstone ashlar, with ashlar dressings and slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan with rear extensions. 2 storeys and 5 bays under an eaves cornice, with a pediment over the slightly projecting central bay. Glazed central porch has coupled Ionic columns supporting a plain entablature. All the windows have moulded architraves and 12-pane sashes, those on the ground floor have cornices carried on scrolled brackets. INTERIOR: reputed to contain visible remains of entrances to platforms. HISTORY: originally built as the Penny Street terminus of the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway. In 1846 the present station (on a through line) near the Castle was opened by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company (Station Road, qv), which took over the running of the line to Preston in 1849 and closed the Penny Street station to passenger traffic. (Nuttall K & Rawlings T: Railways Around Lancaster: Clapham, Lancaster: 1980-: 7).
Listing NGR: SD4781861132
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