17 and 18, East Beach is a Grade II listed building in the Fylde local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1971. A Victorian Marine villas.
17 and 18, East Beach
- WRENN ID
- turning-plinth-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fylde
- Constituency
- Fylde MP: Mr Andrew Snowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1971
- Type
- Marine villas
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- 17 and 18, East Beach, Lytham St Annes, FY8 5EU
- OS grid reference
- SD 369 270
- Coordinates
- 53.73643, -2.95771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 17 and 18, East Beach, are a pair of marine villas built around 1845-1860, now subdivided into flats. They are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The buildings have a double-pile plan beneath a two-span roof, with individual back extensions, designed in the Jacobethan style.
They stand two storeys high and originally featured a symmetrical façade with 2+2 windows. The gabled wings project forward and are connected at the ground floor by a loggia that spans the main range. Architectural details include a plinth, quoins, a weathered first-floor sill band, wing gables, and intermediate gablets adorned with cusped bargeboards and obelisk finials, although the finial is missing from No. 17.
The loggia, made of brick and sandstone ashlar, has a continuous cavetto-moulded and weathered band along with a stone parapet. The section for No. 17 features pilasters framing an opening with 20th-century windows, while No. 18 has a large rectangular window with a quoined surround and a lowered sill for French windows. Above the loggia, both villas have three-light casements beneath gablets.
The wing of No. 17 includes an early 20th-century stone two-storey canted bay window, while No. 18 has a more recent two-storey triangular bay window made of lead and wood. The roof has three ridge chimneys, and the return walls include side wings that have been altered in various ways.
These villas are part of a significant mid-19th century seaside development of villas and boarding houses.
Local climate
17 and 18, East Beach sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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