Clifton Hall

Clifton Hall is a large house built in 1833 for Thomas Clifton of Lytham Hall, and it is now a nursing home. The building features red brick with sandstone dressings and blue slate roofs, topped with numerous tall octagonal sandstone chimneys. Its layout is roughly U-shaped within a rectangular footprint, with a four-bay south range facing the garden and receding wings; the west wing contains the entrance front, while the longer east wing faces a formal garden.

The house is two storeys high and designed in an Elizabethan style, characterized by gables, stone corner turrets, corbelled pinnacles, and finials. It has brick parapets with moulded stone copings and features mullioned and transomed windows, some of which have hoodmoulds. The entrance front of the west wing includes a set-back gabled centre with a single-storey square porch that displays a coat of arms topped by the Clifton crest, which features a mailed arm wielding a dagger. To the left is a short three-bay projection with a stepped facade, and the centre of this gable has a large window on each floor, with the upper window designed like an oriel. The east wing mirrors this projection. The south range is mostly symmetrical, with three gabled bays, although the far fourth bay acts as a wing and is now obscured at ground level by a large modern sun parlour.

At the rear, which encloses the service courtyard, there is a four-centred arched entrance featuring a keystone inscribed with "TC 1833." The interior is noted to be of less interest.

Historically, Clifton Hall was built on the site of the Old Hall, which was partially destroyed by fire in 1745. In the mid-19th century, it was occupied by Edward Pedder, a banker from Preston.