Description

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD3627SW HASTINGS PLACE, Lytham 621-1/5/61 (East side) Nos.1-16 (Consecutive) Hastings Place

GV II

Terrace of small town houses; No.8 now an office. c1846-53, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Long convex curved plan, with projected gabled bays to Nos 1, 4, 8, 13 and 16, No.8 double-fronted and all the others single-fronted, and all with individual back extensions. Eclectic style with Gothick accent. No.8, forming a central feature to the whole terrace, is two-and-a-half storeys and 3 bays, symmetrical, with a narrow set-back centre flanked by wide gabled bays which have quoined corners, 1st-floor sillbands and steeply-pitched gables with stone copings. Its centre has a rectangular porch with quoins and a round-headed archway with imposts, keystone and hoodmould, and a coped parapet; a one-light window at 1st floor, a stone banner over this lettered "HASTINGS PLACE", and a stone parapet pierced by a quatrefoil, with an obelisk finial; its wings have added rectangular bays at ground floor with coupled windows and hipped roofs, 2-light windows at 1st floor and one-light attic windows. The houses in the ranges on either side are all 2-storeyed (except No.1 which has an attic) with 2 windows at 1st floor (1 and 2 lights, alternating), and one window and a round-headed doorway at ground floor. Nos 1, 4 and 5, 12 and 13, and 15 and 16 have flat-roofed porches formed by sideways extensions to the projected gabled bays, with panelled parapets and double string-courses carried across, and the others have flush doorways protected by hipped canopies on brackets, but all the doorways are round-headed with imposts and keystones, and some have radiating glazing bars in the fanlights. All the gabled bays have stone canted bay windows with shallow roofs. The other windows have quoined surrounds, and most windows have altered glazing. Ridge chimney stacks. The front gardens are enclosed by boundary and partition walls of cobblestones with brick framing and stone copings, approx. 1 metre high, a pair of stone gatepiers with pyramidal caps in line with each front door. HISTORY: built by the Clifton estate and named Hastings Place to commemorate the marriage of two sons of the Clifton family of Lytham Hall to daughters of the Marquis of Hastings.

Listing NGR: SD3647627245

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