Description

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD3627SW HASTINGS PLACE, Lytham
621-1/5/62 (West side)
Former Estate Office, with attached
screen walls

GV II

Estate office to Clifton Estate, now Social Services offices.
c.1850-60, altered.
Red brick in English bond, with sandstone dressings and hipped
slate roof.
Rectangular double-depth plan. Italianate style.
Two storeys and 2:1:2 windows, symmetrical, with
open-pedimented centre breaking forwards slightly;
punch-dressed plinth, 1st-floor sillband, bracketed eaves.
The centre has a segmental-headed doorway set in a large stone
architrave which has panelled pilasters, moulded imposts, a
stilted head with figured keystone, frieze inscribed "ESTATE
OFFICE", prominent cornice and pierced Renaissance-style
parapet; a Venetian window at 1st floor, and a stone plaque
above this with the Clifton Arms.
The ground floor has stilted segmental-headed windows with
moulded heads linked by moulded imposts, and the first floor
has round-headed windows, all these windows with triple
keystones and all sashed without glazing bars. Two chimneys
behind the ridge. Three-bay side walls.
INTERIOR: dog-legged open-string staircase with alternate
wooden stick balusters and cast-iron barleysugar balusters.
Attached at both sides are brick screen walls approx. 1 metre
high, forming concave quadrants round a wide forecourt, each
terminating in a square pier of brick with rusticated stone
quoins and dentilled pyramidal cap.
HISTORY: built on site which was formerly the entrance to one
of the drives to Lytham Park.

Listing NGR: SD3641227249

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579748

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