Old lifeboat house is a Grade II listed building in the Fylde local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1971. A C19 Museum. 5 related planning applications.
Old lifeboat house
- WRENN ID
- moated-hinge-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fylde
- Constituency
- Fylde MP: Mr Andrew Snowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1971
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Old lifeboat house, East Beach, Lytham St Annes, FY8 5EX
- OS grid reference
- SD 370 269
- Coordinates
- 53.73554, -2.95543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Lifeboat House, now a museum, is a mid to late 19th century building that has been altered. It features cobble walls with a sandstone plinth and red brick dressings, including flush strips, topped with a slate roof. The structure has a rectangular plan aligned with the slipway.
This single-storey building has three-bay sides and a tall, steeply-pitched roof. Each side is supported by buttressed corners and has three one-light wooden-louvred windows with stone sills and lintels, and chamfered brick jambs. The central section is framed by brick strips and includes added benches sheltered by a roof supported by cast-iron columns. Above the centre of each side is a steeply-pitched gabled dormer featuring a window similar to the others, topped with a finial. The roof's centre has a wooden lantern with a steep slated pyramidal cap, which is surmounted by a weathervane. The south gable wall includes a large doorway with folding double doors, a one-light window above, and projected verges with an apex finial.
The building forms a group with the nearby windmill, which stands close to the north end.
Local climate
Old lifeboat house 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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