Ladywell Hospital Eccles New Road Salford.

Former workhouse. Stock brick and red brick. Large with some shaped gables. The site chosen was on the bank of the River Irwell at the extreme western end of the township of Pendleton in a still rural location overlooking the estate of the de Trafford family on the opposite bank of the river. The building was so close the boundary that it was virtually in Eccles.

NEW WORKHOUSE, SALFORD: COMPETITION - The Guardians have selected the plans of Messrs Pennington & Jervis for a new workhouse. For the plans of Messrs Starkey & Cuffley, a prize of £30 was awarded and for those of Messrs Clegg & Knowles, a prize of £20. The building will have a frontage of about 110 feet. On the ground- floor will be the clerk’s and other offices, a committee room etc., and over these will be the board room, lighted by an oriel window above the entrance. Immediately at the rear, but detached from the offices, will be the vagrant and probationary wards and yards, those for males to the right and for females to the left. The workhouse building, in the rear of these, but at some distance from them, will have a frontage of 341 feet, with two wings 60 feet long: the building and wings will be each about 38 feet deep, and, in addition to the necessary offices for clerks etc. the centre of the building will contain accommodation for the master and matron: for the main room of each of these there will be a projecting window, commanding the exercise yards of the men and women respectively. Over the centre will be a bell and clock tower with louvre boards. The front of the offices and the centre of the workhouse are described as “somewhat in the Elizabethan style.” The ventilation will be accomplished by means of 2 inch cavity-walls with perforated glass in the upper compartments of the windows. The building is calculated to contain 700 inmates and the cost is estimated at about £8,000. [The Builder April 1851 Page 217]