Former Estate Office with Attached Screen Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Fylde local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1993. Office.

Former Estate Office with Attached Screen Walls

WRENN ID
haunted-merlon-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Fylde
Constituency
Fylde MP: Mr Andrew Snowden (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 February 1993
Type
Office
OS grid reference
SD 364 272
Coordinates
53.73774, -2.96549
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former estate office for the Clifton Estate, now used as Social Services offices, was built around 1850-1860 and has been altered since its original construction. It is made of red brick in English bond, with sandstone dressings and a hipped slate roof, designed in an Italianate style. The building has a rectangular double-depth plan and is two storeys high, featuring a symmetrical façade with a configuration of 2:1:2 windows. The centre of the building projects slightly and has an open-pedimented design, with a punch-dressed plinth, a first-floor sill band, and bracketed eaves.

The main entrance features a segmental-headed doorway set within a large stone architrave, which includes panelled pilasters, moulded imposts, a stilted head with a figured keystone, a frieze inscribed "ESTATE OFFICE," a prominent cornice, and a pierced Renaissance-style parapet. Above the doorway is a Venetian window on the first floor, along with a stone plaque displaying the Clifton Arms. The ground floor has stilted segmental-headed windows with moulded heads linked by moulded imposts, while the first floor has round-headed windows, all of which have triple keystones and are sashed without glazing bars. There are two chimneys located behind the ridge, and the side walls are three bays wide.

Inside, there is a dog-legged open-string staircase featuring alternate wooden stick balusters and cast-iron barleysugar balusters. The building is flanked on both sides by brick screen walls approximately 1 metre high, which form concave quadrants around a wide forecourt. Each screen wall ends in a square brick pier with rusticated stone quoins and a dentilled pyramidal cap. Historically, this site was the entrance to one of the drives leading to Lytham Park.

Local climate

Former Estate Office with Attached Screen Walls 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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