BLACKPOOL CITADEL AND WINSTONE HOUSE

BLACKPOOL CITADEL, RAIKES PARADE, FY1 4EL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205886
Date first listed:: 06-Nov-1975
List Entry Name:: BLACKPOOL CITADEL AND WINSTONE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BLACKPOOL CITADEL, RAIKES PARADE, FY1 4EL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205886
Date first listed:: 06-Nov-1975
List Entry Name:: BLACKPOOL CITADEL AND WINSTONE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BLACKPOOL CITADEL, RAIKES PARADE, FY1 4EL
Statutory Address 2:: WINSTONE HOUSE, 199, CHURCH STREET, FY1 3TG

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BLACKPOOL CITADEL, RAIKES PARADE, FY1 4EL
Statutory Address:: WINSTONE HOUSE, 199, CHURCH STREET, FY1 3TG

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

District:: Blackpool (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 31372 36271

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/04/2015

SD 33 NW 2/22

BLACKPOOL RAIKES PARADE Blackpool Citadel and 199 Church Street (Winstone House)

(Formerly listed as The Old Grammar School, Raikes Parade)

6.11.1975

II Former school, originally Raikes Road Technical School 1904-05 by Rotts Son and Hennings, subsequently Grammar School, now Salvation Army and office premises. Brick with terracotta dressings and quoins, main roofs of slate, domes of copper. Modified U-shaped plan, wings receding. 2 storeys and basement with 3-storey corner tower, in free Baroque style. Facade of 5 elements linked by string course; central block 2 storeys, symmetrical, with 5 large mullioned and transomed windows (with glazing bars) on each floor, string course, single pilasters between windows of upper floor; large open pediment with bullseye attic window and swags; hipped roof, and tall chimney stacks at each end. Lower bay on each side, with cornice and balustrade, that on the left linking with north wing which has 3 narrow windows in basement and at ground floor,4 pilasters at 1st floor, and a blind niche with open segmental pediment breaking through the cornice as attic in hipped roof; that on the right has large arched entrance porch with single pilasters and open pediment. Corner tower on right has square plan with chamfered corners; 3 storeys, brick, with one mullioned and transomed window on each floor, parapet with balustrades, and octagonal lantern with copper dome and finial. Right (south) wing is stepped back, with 2-storey canted bay in the re-entrant; this wing contains a square 2-storey block with hipped roof and copper-capped belfry. Left (north) wing of 3 storeys, basement here becoming ground floor; return facade of 8 bays has arched and decorated porch in 4th bay and above it at 2nd floor level an aediculed niche containing a bust; large 2-storey bay window with ornamental parapet, at end; hipped roof with copper-capped belfry.

Listing NGR: SD3137236271

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Legacy System number:: 183679
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.