Lytham Police Station And Attached Magistrates Court

This building comprises a police station and attached magistrates court, dating to circa 1900, with later alterations in the late 20th century. Constructed of bright red brick in stretcher bond, it features sandstone dressings and white-painted joinery, with a hipped slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan and is designed in an Edwardian Baroque style. The police station occupies the front of the building, with the magistrates court to the rear.

The front elevation consists of two storeys and four irregular bays, with the second and third bays projecting forward. The second bay incorporates a turret, while the third bay features a wide segmental open pediment. Banded brick pilasters accentuate the corners, a first-floor band, and a prominent modillioned cornice. The ground-floor doorway to the porch of the second bay has a round-headed opening with a cavetto surround, a lion-mask keyblock, and an elaborate architrave incorporating engaged Ionic columns and an open segmental pediment bearing a carved shield of arms. The first floor has two single-light windows, and a circular oeil-de-boeuf window sits above. An octagonal turret is topped with a swan-neck broken pediment, colonnade with engaged Ionic columns, keyed oculi in the cardinal sides, and an ogival cap with a finial. The third bay is wider and features a tripartite window on the ground floor, flanked by single-light windows. A banded blank arch at the first floor contains a large Venetian window with a bowed stone balcony and ornamental iron railings. Other bays feature various windows, all sashed with glazing bars.

The magistrates courts are contained within a plain block to the rear of the police station. Court no. 2 has been refurbished, while Court no. 1 retains original Edwardian fittings, including a magistrates' entrance with a heraldic cartouche to the pedimented doorcase, a magistrates' bench, a prisoners' dock, fixed benching to the public seating areas, and pedimented doorcases to public entrances. The room features decorative plasterwork and large rectangular rooflights with patterned coloured glass, illuminating a coved ceiling.

The building forms a group with the Public Library and Hewitt Lecture Room to the south, and with Lytham United Reformed Church and its former Sunday School opposite.