Description

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD3627SE CLIFTON STREET, Lytham
621-1/6/45 (North side)
No.27
Public Library, Lytham Institute and
Hewitt Lecture Room

GV II

Institute with billiard room and lecture room, now also
occupied by public library. Dated 1878 on parapet over centre.
Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone and polychrome brick
dressings, steeply-pitched slate roofs.
U-shaped plan on end-of-block site, with Institute fronting
Clifton Street, billiard room and lecture room range fronting
Bannister Street and short returned end to that range.
Gothic style. The front range is 2 storeys and 3 bays, the
outer bays gabled, with a weathered band in the place of a
plinth, a polychrome band at 1st floor, quoin-patterned
corners of white brick, and coped gables with kneelers and
ornamental cast-iron finials.
The centre has a porch with a moulded Tudor-arched outer
doorway and hoodmould, 2-centred arched windows in the sides,
and internal steps up to double doors with ornamental strap
hinges; a round-headed 4-pane sashed window at 1st floor; and
a stepped stone parapet with raised lettering "AD / 1878 /
LYTHAM / INSTITUTE".
To the left at ground floor is a rectangular bay window with
coupled triangular-headed 4-pane sashes, to the right a canted
bay window, and above each of these a 2-centred arched 4-pane
sashed window with polychrome surround and hoodmould with
figured stops.
Two-window left gable wall similar to front, including a
similar rectangular bay window.
Continued to the rear is the billiard room and lecture room
range, of one storey and 5 bays, with projecting gables to the
2nd and 4th. Both these have gable copings with kneelers and
ornamental cast-iron finials; that to the left has a shallow
gabled porch with a 2-centred arched doorway over which hangs
a glazed lantern with a stained glass pane lettered "HEWITT /
LECTURE / ROOM"; that to the right has two 2-centred arched
windows; and the other bays have 1, 2 and 2 round-headed
4-pane sashed windows respectively.
North return wall has (inter alia) 3 round-headed windows.
Forms group with Police Station to north (q.v.) and with
United Reformed Church opposite this (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD3685127223

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579868

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)