Public Library, Lytham Institute and Hewitt Lecture Room
PUBLIC LIBRARY, LYTHAM INSTITUTE AND HEWITT LECTURE ROOM, 27, CLIFTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291791
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Public Library, Lytham Institute and Hewitt Lecture Room
- Statutory Address:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, LYTHAM INSTITUTE AND HEWITT LECTURE ROOM, 27, CLIFTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291791
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Public Library, Lytham Institute and Hewitt Lecture Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, LYTHAM INSTITUTE AND HEWITT LECTURE ROOM, 27, CLIFTON STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, LYTHAM INSTITUTE AND HEWITT LECTURE ROOM, 27, CLIFTON STREET
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 36851 27223
Details
LYTHAM ST ANNES
SD3627SE CLIFTON STREET, Lytham
621-1/6/45 (North side)
No.27
Public Library, Lytham Institute and
Hewitt Lecture Room
GV II
Institute with billiard room and lecture room, now also
occupied by public library. Dated 1878 on parapet over centre.
Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone and polychrome brick
dressings, steeply-pitched slate roofs.
U-shaped plan on end-of-block site, with Institute fronting
Clifton Street, billiard room and lecture room range fronting
Bannister Street and short returned end to that range.
Gothic style. The front range is 2 storeys and 3 bays, the
outer bays gabled, with a weathered band in the place of a
plinth, a polychrome band at 1st floor, quoin-patterned
corners of white brick, and coped gables with kneelers and
ornamental cast-iron finials.
The centre has a porch with a moulded Tudor-arched outer
doorway and hoodmould, 2-centred arched windows in the sides,
and internal steps up to double doors with ornamental strap
hinges; a round-headed 4-pane sashed window at 1st floor; and
a stepped stone parapet with raised lettering "AD / 1878 /
LYTHAM / INSTITUTE".
To the left at ground floor is a rectangular bay window with
coupled triangular-headed 4-pane sashes, to the right a canted
bay window, and above each of these a 2-centred arched 4-pane
sashed window with polychrome surround and hoodmould with
figured stops.
Two-window left gable wall similar to front, including a
similar rectangular bay window.
Continued to the rear is the billiard room and lecture room
range, of one storey and 5 bays, with projecting gables to the
2nd and 4th. Both these have gable copings with kneelers and
ornamental cast-iron finials; that to the left has a shallow
gabled porch with a 2-centred arched doorway over which hangs
a glazed lantern with a stained glass pane lettered "HEWITT /
LECTURE / ROOM"; that to the right has two 2-centred arched
windows; and the other bays have 1, 2 and 2 round-headed
4-pane sashed windows respectively.
North return wall has (inter alia) 3 round-headed windows.
Forms group with Police Station to north (q.v.) and with
United Reformed Church opposite this (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD3685127223
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385263
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
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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