Public Library, Lytham Institute And Hewitt Lecture Room

This is a late 19th-century institute building, dating to 1878 as indicated by the lettering on the front parapet. It now also serves as a public library. Constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with sandstone and polychrome brick dressings, and steeply-pitched slate roofs, the building occupies an end-of-block site with a U-shaped plan. The main Institute front faces Clifton Street, while a range containing a billiard room and lecture room fronts Bannister Street, with a returned end to that range. The design is in a Gothic style.

The front range is two stories and three bays, with gabled outer bays. It features a weathered band in place of a plinth, a polychrome band at first floor level, quoin-patterned corners of white brick, and coped gables with kneelers and ornamental cast-iron finials. The centre of the front range has a porch with a moulded Tudor-arched outer doorway and hoodmould, with 2-centred arched windows to the sides. Internal steps lead up to double doors with ornamental strap hinges. Above the porch is a round-headed window with four panes of sash glazing. A stepped stone parapet displays the raised lettering "AD / 1878 / LYTHAM / INSTITUTE". To the left at ground floor is a rectangular bay window with coupled triangular-headed four-pane sashes, and to the right a canted bay window. Above these are 2-centred arched four-pane sash windows with polychrome surrounds, hoodmoulds with figured stops. The left gable wall has two windows similar to the front, including a similar rectangular bay window.

Behind the front range is the one-story, five-bay billiard room and lecture room range, with projecting gables to the second and fourth bays. These gables feature copings with kneelers and ornamental cast-iron finials. The left gable has a shallow porch with a 2-centred arched doorway above which hangs a glazed lantern containing a stained glass pane lettered "HEWITT / LECTURE / ROOM". The right gable has two 2-centred arched windows, and the other bays incorporate one, two and two round-headed four-pane sashed windows respectively. The north return wall includes three round-headed windows.

The building forms a group with the adjacent Police Station and the United Reformed Church opposite.