Former Estate Office With Attached Screen Walls

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD3627SW HASTINGS PLACE, Lytham 621-1/5/62 (West side) Former Estate Office, with attached screen walls

GV II

Estate office to Clifton Estate, now Social Services offices. c.1850-60, altered. Red brick in English bond, with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan. Italianate style. Two storeys and 2:1:2 windows, symmetrical, with open-pedimented centre breaking forwards slightly; punch-dressed plinth, 1st-floor sillband, bracketed eaves. The centre has a segmental-headed doorway set in a large stone architrave which has panelled pilasters, moulded imposts, a stilted head with figured keystone, frieze inscribed "ESTATE OFFICE", prominent cornice and pierced Renaissance-style parapet; a Venetian window at 1st floor, and a stone plaque above this with the Clifton Arms. The ground floor has stilted segmental-headed windows with moulded heads linked by moulded imposts, and the first floor has round-headed windows, all these windows with triple keystones and all sashed without glazing bars. Two chimneys behind the ridge. Three-bay side walls. INTERIOR: dog-legged open-string staircase with alternate wooden stick balusters and cast-iron barleysugar balusters. Attached at both sides are brick screen walls approx. 1 metre high, forming concave quadrants round a wide forecourt, each terminating in a square pier of brick with rusticated stone quoins and dentilled pyramidal cap. HISTORY: built on site which was formerly the entrance to one of the drives to Lytham Park.

Listing NGR: SD3641227249