Bailrigg

Bailrigg House
Bailrigg House
General information
Architectural style	Vernacular Revival (Arts and Crafts)
Address	Bailrigg Lane
Town or city	Lancaster
Country	United Kingdom
Coordinates	54°00′54″N 2°47′15″W / 54.01490°N 2.78754°W
Construction started	1899
Completed	1902
Design and construction
Architecture firm	Woolfall and Eccles of Liverpool
Designations
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name	Bailrigg House
Designated	24 August 2005
Reference no.	1391378

Bailrigg
Bailrigg
	The Charles Carter Building
	Bailrigg Location in Lancaster unparished area Bailrigg Location in the City of Lancaster district Bailrigg Location within Lancashire
OS grid reference	SD4858
District	City of Lancaster;
Shire county	Lancashire;
Region	North West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LANCASTER
Postcode district	LA1, LA2
Dialling code	01524
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Lancaster and Fleetwood;
	List of places UK England Lancashire 54°01′N 2°47′W / 54.01°N 2.79°W

Bailrigg is the campus of Lancaster University, in the City of Lancaster, Lancashire, England, 2.5 mi (4.0 km) south of the centre of Lancaster.^[1]^[2] The student radio station Bailrigg FM is named after the site.

History

We went up there on a windy day, and it was freezing cold. Every time we opened a plan it blew away. And we said Christ! What are we going to do with these students, where are they going to sit in the sun and all that? Well, we decided, it's got to be cloisters. All of the buildings have got to touch at the ground. We then devised this system and it had an absolutely firm principle: it had a great spine down the middle where everybody walked. That led everywhere. The cars were on the outside, on both sides. When you came into the spaces things were square, they were rectangular courtyards and they were all slightly different. There were two or three essentials: one was that the covered way had to be continuous, the buildings had to be three or four storeys high and connecting to the next one. I thought it worked very well.

Peter Shepheard recalling the survey of the campus site^[3]

Bailrigg was a hamlet in the township of Scotforth and in some early deeds it was described as a manor. Its 2,880 acres were owned by Count Roger Pictavensis and his family, and afterwards the title fell to Cockersand Abbey. The settlement gave its name to a local family, Roger de Bailrigg and his descendants. In 1469 the land was granted to John Gardiner, who endowed Lancaster Royal Grammar School, and it went through numerous owners subsequently. In 1887 it was purchased by Thomas Storey, who founded the Storey Institute. He died in 1898 and the estate passed to his son Herbert Storey.^[4]

Bailrigg House

Herbert Storey had Bailrigg House, also known as Bailrigg Mansion, built between 1899 and 1902 by Woolfall and Eccles of Liverpool. The landscape around Bailrigg House was also reoriented, and additional aspects added, with some of the work done by landscape architect Thomas Hayton Mawson.^[5]^[6] In 1921, Storey moved to Wiltshire, and the estate was bought by James Travis-Clegg, who lived there until he died in 1942. In 1944, the estate was bought by Barton Townley, a local car dealer.^[7]^[8] He agreed to sell the estate to the City of Lancaster for £50,000 in 1961, and eventually did so in 1963, in order to make way for the new University of Lancaster.^[9]

University Campus

The new university buildings were designed by Gabriel Epstein and Peter Shepheard.^[10]

In January 2017, Bailrigg was chosen by the government as the site of a new garden village, with up to 5,000 new homes.^[11]

Gallery

Bailrigg House
Bailrigg House Gardens
Bailrigg House Gardens

References

^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 102 Preston & Blackpool (Lytham St Anne's) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2011. ISBN 9780319228289.
^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
^ Fulcher, Merlin (8 April 2014). "Contest opens for Lancaster University overhaul". Architects' Journal. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
^ McClintock, Marion E. (1974). The University of Lancaster: Quest for Innovation. Lancaster: University of Lancaster. p. 2.
^ "The Storey Family and Thomas Mawson". Lancaster University. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
^ "BAILRIGG HOUSE, Lancaster - 1391378 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
^ "Heritage Open Days" (PDF). Lancaster Civic Society Newsletter. No. 111. December 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
^ "Barton Townley Ltd". Lancaster University. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
^ McClintock, p. 13–5
^ Fulcher, Merlin (8 April 2014). "Contest opens for Lancaster University overhaul". Architects' Journal. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
^ Garden villages: Locations of first 14 announced, BBC News, 2 January. 2017