Public Offices
PUBLIC OFFICES, 292-294, CLIFTON DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390771
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Public Offices
- Statutory Address:
- PUBLIC OFFICES, 292-294, CLIFTON DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390771
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Public Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUBLIC OFFICES, 292-294, CLIFTON DRIVE
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 OFFICES, 292-294, CLIFTON DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Fylde (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Saint Anne's on the Sea
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 32036 28642
Details
621-1/0/10013 CLIFTON DRIVE
28-NOV-03 292-294
Public Offices
II
Public Offices. 1902, extended 1907, and with late C20 alterations and additions. By Thomas Muirhead, architect, of Manchester for Lytham St Annes Urban District Council. Accrington red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings and detailing, gable and eaves chimney stacks with moulded caps, coped gables and a slate roof covering.
PLAN: Elongated L-plan complex with symmetrical street frontage range and long, plainly-detailed service range added to rear.
EXTERIOR: Clifton Drive South elevation of 5 bays, 2 storeys above a basement, set behind brick walls with concave depressions supporting railings. Symmetrical frontage with central 3 bays advanced, with wide semi-circular banded arch to central doorway, set beneath flat canopy set on elongated brackets. Flanking the doorway are paired 6 over 9 pane sash windows set on an ashlar cill band and below a moulded string course. The advanced 3 bays are delineated by angled corner shafts carried on moulded corbels, and terminating at moulded finials to short curved copings. Above the doorway is a wide storey band with ashlar panels incorporating raised lettering which reads 'PUBLIC OFFICES 1900 ' Above, 3 sunken bay windows with semi-circular centre lights, separated by banded pilasters. Angled returns to set-back end bays, with paired sash windows to both floors. INTERIOR: Entrance vestibule with moulded plaster cornices leads onto stair with turned balusters, moulded ramped handrails and elaborate panelled newel posts. Ground floor doorways with moulded surrounds, panelled doors and wide multi-pane overlights. Upper floor with former council chamber accessed by means of elaborate panelled doors with etched glass glazing. Ceiling with vaulted centre section, and with exposed roof trusses with moulded queen posts. Other rooms retain original hearth surrounds with overmantles and other items of original joinery.
A prominent and carefully-designed public building, carefully sited on a principal street frontage within the centre of the rapidly-developing planned settlement of Lytham St. Anne's. The building is an expression in contemporary architectural form of the confidence of a local authority, and is a little -altered example of a significant late C19/early C20 municipal building type.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491386
- 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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