Grand Hotel With Front Garden Wall

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD32NW SOUTH PROMENADE, St Annes 621-1/2/109 (North East side) Grand Hotel, with front garden wall

GV II

Hotel. Dated 1897 on parapet to centre. By F.W.Catterall; altered. Red brick with some red tile-hanging, dressings of red sandstone, some terracotta, some pargetting, and red tiled roofs. Large U-plan formed by main range with receding wings (rear courtyard partly filled in). Eclectic style. Three storeys and 2:5:2 bays including corner drums, symmetrical, the wings breaking forwards slightly. The centre bay, which breaks through the eaves and is in the style of a 3-storey Jacobean porch, with pilaster strips, and parapet with terracotta panels lettered "AD" "1897" and ball finials, has a stone porch composed of banded triple columns at the corners, a frieze lettered "GRAND HOTEL", a moulded cornice and balcony with balustraded parapet; and 3-light French windows at 1st and 2nd floors, the upper with a stone balcony which has ornamental iron railings. Flanking the centre are narrow 5-window ranges incoporating full-height canted bays with pargetted gables (the ground floor protected by C20 verandahs). The wings, which are tile-hung at the top floor, have narrow inner bays with pargetted gables, and prominent drums extruded from the corners, which rise above eaves level and have pargetted panels above the top floor windows, and domed roofs with finials. Various ridge chimneys. Returned sides in similar style. INTERIOR retains original rooms and features, including entrance hall with Jacobean-style staircase, stained glass stair-window, Jacobean-style mahogany screens to reception office, with stained glass; dining room with moulded plaster (etc).

Listing NGR: SD3234028230