Clifton Hotel

The Clifton Hotel is a hotel built between 1865 and 1874, located at Talbot Square in Blackpool. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings, featuring stone quoins and string courses, though it has been stuccoed and rendered. The hotel has slate roofs and occupies a three-sided site, having first extended the original Clifton Arms Hotel in 1865 and then replaced it in 1874.

The north front, built in 1865, has five bays, with the middle three being symmetrical. It was later extended on the west side by adding two wider bays. The building stands four storeys tall, with the third and fifth bays canted to full height and the seventh and eighth bays canted to the first floor level. The ground floor, which features rusticated stucco, has a large balustraded pavilion extension in front of the first five bays, complete with arched windows. The entrance, located in the sixth bay, has a porch designed in the Tuscan order.

The first and second floors contain segmental-headed sashed windows with stilted architraves, while the third floor features round-headed sashed windows. The building is topped with a bracketed eaves cornice and hipped roofs. The west return wall includes two two-storey canted bays with balustrades and a stepped-out extension that is four windows wide. Inside, there is a staircase with carved balustrades and a richly ornamented dining room.