Old lifeboat house

Old lifeboat house, East Beach, Lytham St Annes

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196369
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1971
List Entry Name:: Old lifeboat house
Statutory Address:: Old lifeboat house, East Beach, Lytham St Annes

RNLI Lytham St Annes Lifeboat Station taken 1970. From the RNLI Archive. — Uploaded by RNLI This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196369
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1971
List Entry Name:: Old lifeboat house
Statutory Address 1:: Old lifeboat house, East Beach, Lytham St Annes

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Old lifeboat house, East Beach, Lytham St Annes

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Fylde (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 37072 26995

Details

SD32NE 621-1/3/57

LYTHAM ST ANNES Lytham EAST BEACH, (south side) Old lifeboat house

13/01/71

GV II Lifeboat house, now museum. Mid to later C19; altered. Cobble walls with sandstone plinth and red brick dressings including flush strips, slate roof. Rectangular plan aligned with slipway.

Single storey with three-bay sides and tall steeply-pitched roof. Each side has buttressed corners, and three one-light wooden-louvred windows with stone sills and lintels and chamfered brick jambs, the centre framed by brick strips, and added benches sheltered by a roof supported by cast-iron columns; and above the centre of each is a steeply-pitched gabled dormer with a window like the others, and a finial. The centre of the roof has a wooden lantern with steep slated pyramidal cap surmounted by a weathervane. The south gable wall has a large doorway with folding double doors, a one-light window above, and projected verges with an apex finial.

Forms a group with the windmill (q.v.) which stands close to the north end.

Listing NGR: SD3707226995

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Legacy System number:: 385275
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.