Hastings Place

Hastings Place is a terrace of small town houses built around 1846-53, with later alterations. Number 8 is now an office. The terrace is constructed from red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It follows a long, convex curved plan, with projecting gabled bays at numbers 1, 4, 8, 13, and 16. Number 8 has a double-fronted design, while the others are single-fronted, and all have individual rear extensions. The architectural style is eclectic, incorporating Gothic detailing.

Number 8, the central feature of the terrace, is two-and-a-half storeys and three bays, with a symmetrical design. It features a narrow, set-back centre flanked by wide gabled bays with quoined corners, a first-floor sill band, and steeply-pitched gables with stone copings. The central section has a rectangular porch with quoins and a round-headed archway framed by imposts, a keystone and a hood mould. Above this is a one-light window, a stone banner inscribed "HASTINGS PLACE", and a stone parapet pierced by a quatrefoil, topped with an obelisk finial. The wings have added rectangular bays at ground floor, featuring coupled windows and hipped roofs. First-floor windows are two-light, and attic windows are one-light.

The remaining houses in the terrace ranges are two storeys high (except number 1, which has an attic), with two windows at first floor (alternating one and two lights), and a round-headed doorway and one window at ground floor. Flat-roofed porches, extensions to the projecting gabled bays with panelled parapets and double string-courses, are found at numbers 1, 4, 5, 12, 13, and 15, 16. The other houses have flush doorways protected by hipped canopies on brackets. All doorways are round-headed, with imposts, keystones and some with radiating glazing bars in the fanlights. All gabled bays feature stone canted bay windows with shallow roofs, and most of the other windows have quoined surrounds with altered glazing. Ridge chimney stacks are present.

The front gardens are enclosed by approximately one-metre high boundary and partition walls built with cobblestones, brick framing, and stone copings. A pair of stone gate piers with pyramidal caps are aligned with each front door.

The terrace was built by the Clifton estate and named Hastings Place to commemorate the marriage of two sons of the Clifton family of Lytham Hall to daughters of the Marquis of Hastings.