Coral Bingo And Social Club (King Edward)

SD 33 NW BLACKPOOL CENTRAL DRIVE

2/3 Coral Bingo and Social Club (King Edward) II

Picture Theatre, dated 1913, now a bingo hall. Accrington brick with stone-coloured dressings. Rectangular plan. A single-storey building with barrel-vaulted roof giving a basically semicircular section to a facade of 2 storeys. Ground floor level has been altered or concealed. Above ground floor, symmetrical facade with central pedimented gable of crude form, flanked by 3-sided banded pilasters, and between them a Venetian window (now blocked), the panel above it filled with lettering "CENTRAL PICTURE THEATRE" and foliated patterns in moulded terracotta; gable boldly chequered in red and white, with date "1913" at apex. Large bullseye window with archivolt each side of central bay, and banded pilaster surmounted by octagonal drum and ball finial at each corner. Interior: small foyer with decorated cornice (swags, etc.); auditorium with balcony; moulded cornice with egg-and-dart decoration; ceiling braces have moulding of crossed straps and interposed leaves and flowers; seating banks have end-panels with moulded garlands. Projection room probably original, paybox altered.

Listing NGR: SD3091235640