Two shelters on Princess Parade, Blackpool

These are two promenade shelters built in 1904, which were relocated in 2012. They were created by Walter MacFarlane and Co of the Saracen foundry in Glasgow, with some castings made by Browns Foundry Company of the Nelson ironworks in Derby.

The shelters are made of cast-iron columns, brackets, dormers, gutters, and finials, featuring wooden screens and lead-covered roofs. The bench castings are made of steel. Each shelter has an almost-square plan, supported by slim columns at the corners, some of which bear Browns casting marks. The columns are linked by screens at each end and have an axial screen aligned north-south. The round columns feature scroll capitals and three foliate brackets in an open arabesque pattern that support the diagonal timbers of the roof soffit. The roofs are emphatically ribbed and swept, with a blind oval dormer on each side and a depressed-ogee cap topped with a needle finial. Ogee gutters discharge rainwater through the columns. The screens have tongue-and-groove lower panels and upper panels that are currently unglazed. The axial screens have concave tongue-and-groove panels that accommodate a curved bench on both sides, while the ends feature straight benches.

Many of the components are identical to or closely match designs found in a MacFarlanes catalogue from around 1890, including the dormers (type 40 on page 644), brackets (type 53 on page 549), and finials (type 423 on page 119). The bench castings correspond to type 11 on page 402.