Lytham Heritage Centre

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD3627SE DICCONSON TERRACE, Lytham 621-1/6/47 (West side) No.2 Lytham Heritage Centre

(Formerly listed as Trustees Savings Bank)

GV II

Includes: No.2 Lytham Heritage Centre HENRY STREET Lytham. Banking hall. Dated 1899 in gable over corner entrance. Red brick in Flemish bond with liberal dressings of red sandstone. Rectangular plan on corner site with canted corner. Tudor style, with large cross-windows and shaped gables. Mostly single storey, with 3-window facade to Dicconson Street and 5 windows to Henry Street. The canted corner has a Tudor-arched doorway with cavetto-panel jambs incorporating Tudor-flower ornament and a shallow canopy with elaborate carving including mouchette tracery, and recessed double doors with ornamental strap hinges and ferramenta to the glazed panels; and a panelled parapet and shaped gable containing a traceried stone plaque lettered "1899". The Henry Street facade has a single-light window, 2 cross-windows, another single-light window and a Tudor-style doorway at the right-hand end, with a window and a shaped gable above. The Dicconson Street facade has 3 large cross-windows, and adjoins No.4 Dicconson Street (q.v.), which is of the same build, the two forming an interesting and unusual survival of the type.

Listing NGR: SD3654227101