Cross and Passion Convent

Cross and Passion Convent, 19, East Beach, Lytham St Annes, FY8 5EU

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218732
Date first listed:
13-Jan-1971
List Entry Name:
Cross and Passion Convent
Statutory Address:
Cross and Passion Convent, 19, East Beach, Lytham St Annes, FY8 5EU
Sisters of the Cross and Passion Convent. Number 19, East Beach, Lytham.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218732
Date first listed:
13-Jan-1971
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Feb-1993
List Entry Name:
Cross and Passion Convent
Statutory Address 1:
Cross and Passion Convent, 19, East Beach, Lytham St Annes, FY8 5EU

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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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:
Cross and Passion Convent, 19, East Beach, Lytham St Annes, FY8 5EU

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Fylde (District Authority)
Parish:
Lytham
National Grid Reference:
SD 36949 27104

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/02/2020

SD3627SE
621-1/6/34

LYTHAM ST ANNES
Lytham
EAST BEACH, (north side)
No.19 Cross and Passion Convent

(Formerly listed as No.19 Convent of the Holy Cross and Passion and St Paul's Nursing Home, CENTRAL BEACH, (north side), previously listed as: EAST BEACH, Lytham (north side) No.19, Convent of the Holy Cross and Passion)

13/01/71

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II
Formerly known as: East Holme, Lytham. Detached marine villa, subsequently school, now nursing home. c.1840; altered and extended. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and Cumbrian slate roof.

Irregular rectangular plan formed by main range parallel to East Beach with full-width back extension under two-span roof (and C20 additions to this). Two storeys over cellars, presenting a symmetrical three-bay facade to Eastl Beach; with a stone plinth, first-floor band, and pitched roof with projected boarded eaves and verges.The ground floor has a stone canted bay window in the centre, with a panelled parapet forming a balcony to the window above, and large three-light French windows to left and right with flat-arched heads; and is now protected by a c.1900 full-width wooden verandah which carries round the central bay window.

The first floor has sashed windows with broad margin panes and sliding louvred shutters suspended from shallow pedimented and dentilled canopies. Gable chimneys and a ridge chimney offset left of centre. Attached at the right-hand end is a conservatory covering part of the three-window gable wall, which otherwise has a doorway to the third bay with a stone architrave and shallow dentilled pediment, and at first floor a window in the centre with a stone architrave and dentilled cornice. The left gable wall has scored render and a canted oriel window at first floor.

The east side of the back extension has three pairs of sashed windows, either altered or rebuilt, and a C20 extension in the centre of the ground floor.

INTERIOR: open-well staircase; plaster ceilings in front rooms.

Forms part of a noteworthy mid-C19 seaside development of villas and boarding houses.

Listing NGR: SD3694927104

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
385250
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.

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