Town Hall

The Town Hall, built between 1895 and 1900 by Rotts Son and Hennings, is a Grade II listed building located in Talbot Square, Blackpool. This U-shaped structure is made of brick with stone dressings and features slate roofs. It is designed in the Jacobean style and consists of three storeys, with the right wing having two storeys.

The symmetrical front has five bays and a central tower. At the ground floor, there is a two-storey stone entrance porch in the Tuscan order, with an Ionic order above, a segmental pediment, and a balustrade with corner finials. The ground floor is finished in stone and has a continuous entablature, featuring four 6-light mullioned and transomed windows. The outer windows are shallow rectangular bays topped with corner finials on the entablature.

On the first floor, similar windows are present, with the outer ones being shallow bays with curved corners, all adorned with scrolled pediments in the entablature. The second floor contains mullioned windows with sashes. The outer bays rise to stone gabled attics that include niches, an entablature, pediments, and finials. The central bay rises to a clock tower with two stages; the lower stage, made of brick, has a window with a stone segmental-pedimented architrave and a dentillated cornice, while the upper stage features a stone belfry with coupled pilasters, a cornice, and a balustrade with finials. Originally, this tower was topped by a tall fleche.

The facade and right wing are anchored by a curved two-storey stone bay with a domical roof set in a concave re-entrant above. The left wing features an arched stone entrance in the third bay, with a corbelled first-floor oriel that rises to a square attic turret with a stone cornice and parapet, topped with finials and open scrolled brackets. The fourth bay has a tall round-headed and traceried first-floor window, along with a shaped stone gable with finials. The right wing, which is two storeys, contains shops on the lower level and the Council Chamber above, featuring four tall oriels set in round arches. It has a steeply pitched roof topped with a belfry that has a domical lead cap, and this wing concludes with a three-storey bay with a nipped roof, dated 1896.