Blackpool Citadel And Winstone House

The building is a former school, originally the Raikes Road Technical School constructed in 1904-05 by Rotts Son and Hennings, later becoming a Grammar School, and now serving as Salvation Army headquarters and office premises. It is built of brick with terracotta dressings and quoins, featuring slate roofs and copper domes. The design is of a modified U-shaped plan with receding wings, and is executed in a free Baroque style. The building is two storeys high with a basement, and includes a three-storey corner tower.

The facade comprises five linked sections, unified by a string course. The central block is two storeys high and symmetrical, with five large mullioned and transomed windows (with glazing bars) on each floor. Above the windows is a string course, with single pilasters separating the windows on the upper floor. A large open pediment tops the central block, containing a bullseye attic window and swags, with a hipped roof and tall chimney stacks at each end. Lower bays flank the central block on either side, each featuring a cornice and balustrade. The left wing links to the north wing, which has three narrow windows in the basement and at ground floor level, four pilasters on the first floor, and a blind niche with an open segmental pediment breaking through the cornice as an attic in the hipped roof. The right bay has a large arched entrance porch with single pilasters and an open pediment.

The corner tower, located on the right, has a square plan with chamfered corners and three storeys, featuring a mullioned and transomed window on each floor, a parapet with balustrades, and an octagonal lantern with a copper dome and finial. The right (south) wing is stepped back, with a two-storey canted bay in the re-entrant angle, containing a square two-storey block with a hipped roof and copper-capped belfry. The left (north) wing is three storeys high, with the basement effectively functioning as a ground floor. Its return facade, of eight bays, includes an arched and decorated porch in the fourth bay, and above it, at second-floor level, an aediculed niche containing a bust. A large two-storey bay window with an ornamental parapet is located at the end of this wing, topped with a hipped roof and a copper-capped belfry.