Building contractors, Lindrick Construction, have begun the refurbishment of a Victorian house with the iconic Liverpool address, One Penny Lane, to create a 900 ft2 medical facility with treatment and consulting rooms for Spire Liverpool Hospital.
‘Every aspect and detail of the exclusively private clinic has been thought of to give patients the bespoke private experience’, while plans to link the sandstone building to the main hospital via a glass corridor are in place. Penny Lane, named after 18th century slave ship owner and anti-abolitionist, James Penny, was immortalised in the Beatles song released in February 1967 as a double A-sided single, with ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’.
Alison Peake, hospital director at Spire Liverpool Hospital, said: “Heritagewise the building is important, so we are going to make sure we are careful in our conversion, and sympathetic to its surroundings. It is in a Conservation Village area, so it is important to comply with the conditions while ensuring it serves its purpose as a medical facility.” When complete, One Penny Lane will house The Liverpool Eye Centre, ‘a collaboration of opthalmic surgeons’, plus an ‘Aesthetic Suite’, and a private GP service.
