Listed buildings in Blackpool

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Listed Buildings
in Blackpool
2006
Grade
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Blackpool Tower
TOWER BUILDINGS, PROMENADE
Grade One --Listed 10.10.1973
Built on the site of Dr. Cocker's Aquarium, one of
the first entertainments in Blackpool, this imitation of
the Eiffel Tower is surrounded by a brick-faced
entertainment complex. It was built between 1891
and 1894 by contractors Heenan and Froude to the
designs of architects Maxwell and Tuke and
engineer R.J.G. Reade.
A) TOWER: Built in open steel girders, the Tower
tapers from 100 feet wide at the base to 30 feet
under the main gallery .One glassed and three
open galleries are surmounted by an open girder
cap and a flag-mast --the top is 518 feet 9 inches
from the ground.
B) BALLROOM: Decorated in the exuberant lavish
style of the Paris Opera by Frank Matcham, the
ballroom was destroyed by fire in 1956 but was
restored to its original form by Andrew Mazzei.
Rising from the first floor level the ballroom has
galleries on two levels on the north, west and south
sides, and a curved and moulded proscenium on
the east. Mouldings and painted panels on the
columns display the names of famous composers.
The vaulted ceiling features Baroque paintings and
an oval skylight.
C) CIRCUS: Set at basement level between the legs of the Tower, the circus is decorated
(probably by Frank Matcham) in an Islamic style. It features multiple and interlaced arches,
fretted windows, stylised scallops and patterned tiles.
D) ROOF GARDENS: Now a children's play area, the glass roofs are supported on slim
columns with stiff-Ieaf capitals and semi-circular roof braces with arabesque open work.
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Grade
2*
Church of Sacred Heart
Grand Theatre
Shrine of our Lady Lourdes
Winter Gardens
CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART
Grade 2 Listed 20.10.1983
Built in 1857 to the designs of E. W. Pugin, a
member of a family responsible for many
churches and the interior of the Houses of
Parliament, this decorated Gothic stone church
was enlarged in 1894.
The four storey west tower has angled
buttresses and a battlemented coping with tall
pinnacles. The short nave, with buttressed
aisles, leads to a spacious octagonal crossing
under a distinctive wooden lantern. The
chancel has an arched, partly glazed, ceiling
with flowing tracery and a carved reredos. The
octagonal pulpit is of elaborately carved white
marble.
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GRAND THEATRE
Grade 2* --Listed 26.01.1972
The theatre was designed for Thomas
Sergenson by Frank Matcham, and built for
£20,000 in just seven months between
December 1893 and July 1894. The three
storey decorated stone corner entrance block
rises to a domed roof of copper fishscale tiles
surmounted by a cupola.
A) The auditorium, with three double-curved
balconies, features plaster decoration in a
very ornate Baroque style, painted white and
gold.
B) The semi-circular proscenium arch is
flanked by curved and decorated boxes.
C) The painted ceiling is surrounded by
panels with painted portrait medallions and
garlands, and two large chandeliers hang
from heavily moulded circular bosses.
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SHRINE OF OUR LADY
OF LOURDES
WHINNEY HEYS ROAD
Grade 2* --Listed 30.06.1999
War memorial thanksgiving chapel, with vestries
and entrance steps. 1955-7 to the designs of F.X.
Velarde; Eaves and Co, builders. Portland stone,
with copper-clad roof and fleche. Nearrectangular plan of four bay church with singlebay narthex and sanctuary apse at their
respective ends, with projecting vestries at East
end. West end blind, with over round-arched
timber double doors a relief of the Holy Trinity by
David John, who also sculpted the pinnacles at
each corner of the building, which depict our
Lady appearing to St Bernadette, Christ
appearing to St Margaret Mary, St Thomas of
Canterbury and St Edward the Confessor.
Those at West end are set on fluted buttresses. Rectangular panels of glazing, filled with
alternating square and lozenge tracery patterns of red and blue glass. Circular motif to tracery
in round-headed little vestry windows. Central fleche with gilded bands contrasting with the
copper, and central cross motif, surmounted by cross. York stone steps between stone flank
walls to entrance The interior is equally magnificently appointed. Round-arched arcades clad
in gold mosaic, with cross motif, support ceiling of vivid blue, red and gold. Tiled floor with
cross motif. Raised sanctuary reached up marble steps in apse with round-arched opening.
Sanctuary floor of marble with mosaic panels. Bronze altar rails of art deco design, related in
style to glazed screen at west end of church, which is finished in lacquered bronze. Altar and
reredos of gris mouchete stone carved by David John. The Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes,
patron saint of the Diocese of Lancaster, was conceived by the Right Reverend Thomas E.
Flynn, Bishop of Lancaster, as a thanksgiving chapel to the diocese's relatively unscathed
survival through World War n. In September 1945 Bishop Flynn wrote: "During the war as the
danger became more acute, and one diocese after another suffered terrible losses of life and
property, I asked for earnest prayers to our patroness, Our Lady of Lourdes and we were
marvellously spared. The thought was in my mind during that period of anxiety that after the
war I should ask the diocese to make an offering to God to show our gratitude". The shrine
cost £50,000 to which every parish in the diocese subscribed. Blackpool was chosen for its
central position and ease of access to visitors; a local builder, William Eaves, donated the site.
The shrine was tended by nuns of the Congregation of Adoration of Mare Repa ratrice. Most
recently the shrine has been attended by the Blessed Sacrament of Fathers. Velarde's work
was described in the opening literature as "although original in design (having) its roots in the
Ancient Romanesque Architecture". While his St Teresa, Upholland, of the same date, shares
the combination of modern sculpture, gilded mosaic and round-arched detailing found here,
the shrine has a perfect, diminutive jewel-like quality that transcends conventional church
formulas.
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WINTER GARDENS,
CHURCH STREET
Grade 2* --Listed 26.01.1972
The Statutory Listed Buildings below are parts of an
entertainments complex bounded by Church Street,
Leopold Grove, Adelaide Street and Coronation
Street, and incorporating elements built variously
between 1875 and 1939.
A) VESTIBULE (1875-8): Six piers with paired
Corinthian pilasters on a circular plan support a 120
feet high glazed dome designed by Thomas Mitchell
and intended to catch the eye of trippers on Talbot
Road.
B) FLORAL HALL (1875-8): This hall, with glazed
roof supported on decorated girders, has pilasters
and panels in blue and ochre tiling on the east wall.
C) AMBULATORY (1875-8): Originally a U-shaped
promenade opening onto the Pavilion, this features
Corinthian columns and tiled panels.
D) PAVILION THEATRE (1878): Built as a
promenade pavilion this hall was converted to a
theatre in 1889, and reconstructed in 1897. The
auditorium with two U-shaped balconies has a
square proscenium opening with double-tiered boxes
and gilded and painted rococo decoration. Stage
converted to Palm Court Restaurant 1986.
E) EMPRESS BALLROOM (1896): Hall 189 feet by
110 feet designed by Manghall and Littlewood of
Manchester, and decorated by J.M.Boekbinder. The
ceiling is decoratively treated as a square-coffered
vault with relief patterned panels in gold and white,
from which hang twelve glass chandeliers. Columns
form a colonnade to the surrounding promenade, and
there is a decorated balcony on three sides.
F) GALLEON BAR (1931): Lavishly decorated representation of a galleon's
lower deck, by Andrew Mezzei.
G) BARONIAL HALL (1931): Jacobean hall with plaster imitation of a hammer-beam roof, a stone
fireplace and carved door-cases.
H) SPANISH HALL (1931): Large vaulted hall with battlemented balconies containing threedimensional representations of clustered Spanish villages. A balustraded balcony at the east end
features a relief arcade revealing a rural landscape.
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Grade
2
Bispham Parish Church
Sundial
“Blowing Sands”
Layton Cemetery Chapel
Central library and Art Gallery
Church of the Holy Trinity
Church of Saint John
Elmslie School
1 and 2 Fishers Lane
Funny Girls
Imperial Hotel
Former King Edward Cinema
Little Marton Mill
Methodist Chapel
Old Miner’s Convalescent Home
New Clifton Hotel
North Pier
Post Office
Promenade Shelters – North Shore
Promenade Shelters – South Shore
Raikes Hall Hotel
Telephone Kiosks
The Salvation Army
Town Hall
United/Hebrew Synagogue
Walkers Hill Farmhouse
War Memorial
White Tower
BISPHAM PARISH CHURCH
ALL HALLOWS ROAD, BISPHAM
Grade 2 --Listed 20.10.1983
Until 1821 the parish church of "Bispham"
was the only place of worship in Blackpool.
The present church, the third in the site,
was built in 1883 in stone with slate roofs
by John Lowe of Manchester. The building
consists of a 5-bay nave, a chancel with
transepts and a south-west tower in a
minimally Early English style. The inner
south doorway is an 1883 restoration of the
Norman original; incorporating fragments of
the original masonry.
Additional Information
Stone with slate roofs. Nave, chancel, west
tower, in minimally Early English style.
Tower with angle-buttresses, squinch-set
stair turret on north side, 3 belfry louvres on
east side, parapet and pinnacles. Nave of S
bays, buttressed, a gabled porch to the
west bay, and one pair of single-light
cusped windows in each of the other bays.
Chancel with transepts, the northern one
very short; each has 2 pairs of similar
windows, and a round trefoil window in the
gable. Triple light east window. South
doorway is 1883 restoration of Norman
original, incorporating fragments of original
masonry: principally, 2 pairs of scalloped
capitals on each side, and an uncertain
number of chevron-patterned voussoirs in
the outer band; middle band of raised
chevrons with carved signs of the zodiac is
Victorian interpretation of signs said to
have been found carved upon originals
when whitewash was removed (VCH Vol. 7 p.244) .Interior: king-post roof on arched
braces rising from wall posts supported by stone corbels; ground floor of tower wall
incorporates an ancient piscina hewn from a square block, a round arch with hollowed
spandrels above it; north transept has painted wooden Commandment Table on west
wall.
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SUNDIAL, BISPHAM PARISH CHURCH
Grade 2 – Listed 20.10.1983
Sundial on stone shaft said to be base of former
cross. Shaft of square section approximately one
metre high, mounted in octagonal stone block on
circular stone disCi incised letters "JH" on north
side, "RE" on west side ("JH" = John Hull, doner
of sundial, "RE" possibly Robert Broadbent
Parish Clerk 1678- 1715)
Sundial plate originally dated 1704 with names
John Hull and John Hebblethwaite and Motto
"Die dies Truditor" now only partially legible.
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"BLOWING SANDS" (and attached wall)
166, COMMON EDGE ROAD,
MARTON MOSS
Probably built in the late
eighteenth century, this cobble
and brick cottage with slate roof
was originally two dwellings.
There are two very low storeys
at the front, with a plain doorway
and two roughly square windows
on each floor.
The two metre high cobble and
brick garden wall on the north
side has a mid-nineteenth
century workshop backing on to
it.
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CEMETERY CHAPEL,
LAYTONROAD
Mortuary chapel. Single storey, three bays,
with a central three-stepped-stage tower, the
lower stage an entrance porch. Entrance, tan
pointed plank doors on pointed, double
chambered surround with hoodmould; tower
has stepped off-set buttresses to lower stage
which frame entrance; returns have plinth with
stepped copings interrupted by lancet light.
Second stage has trefoil-headed belfry
windows. Octagonal spire has splayed base
and lucarnes; cross to apex. To either side of
tower a four-centred arched window. To rear,
a porch to left has pointed plank door and
chamfered surround with hoodmould; off-set
buttresses to angles and cross to apex.
Otherwise two four-centre-arched window.
Right return has continuous sill band and
wide, pointed-arched window with hoodmould
and facestops. Left return has stepped threelight windows. All windows now boarded over.
Roof has triangular lucarnes to each side,
coped gable ends, crosses to apexes and
decorative ridge tiles.
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CENTRAL LIBRARY AND ART
GALLERY
Designed by Cullen, Lockhead and Brown in a
free Baroque style, the Library is built in red
brick with stone dressings (1909).
The corner entrance, with curved colonnade
of six Ionic columns surmounted by a
balustrade and an octagonal lead-roofed
dome, is flanked by identical facades to
Queen Street and Abingdon Street. Prominent
piers with large arches over a bulleye and two
decorated architraves and keystones. Over
the doorway is a stained glass window
showing the Borough crest.
This window was renewed in 1999 as a
Millennium gift from the Civic Trust. The Art
Gallery, adjacent to the Queen Street façade
has coupled Ionic columns supporting a stone
pediment bearing a carved Borough crest.
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CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
This present parish church of South Shore was designed by RK Freeman in 1878 and
extended in 1894-5. The building is in a free decorated Gothic style and construed in
yellow stone dressings and slate roofs. The very high nave and chancel are under one
pointed wooden tunnel roof, with small arches over side aisles. The five level tower
has a stone belfry with louvres and a battlement parapet. The windows have
curvilinear tracery in their heads and many have attractive stained glass (south
transept glass by Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster).
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CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN
This parish church of Blackpool, replacing a
smaller 1821 church on the site, was
designed by Garlick Park and Sykes and
completed in 1878. Built in stone in an Early
English style, it includes a nave with low
aisles, tall transepts, a semi- circular
chancel with painted ceiling and a four
storey southwest tower with pinnacles.
A nave arcade of cylindrical columns
supports a wagon roof, and the tall windows
have plate-traceried stained glass. The
chancel screen and panelling are in a
Gothic style, and the pulpit has a dome of
intricate open work.
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ELMSLIE SCHOOL
Former house, now part of the school.
1896, with minor late 2Oth Century
alterations. Coursed squared
sandstone with ashlar dressings to
front elevation, red brick elsewhere.
Irregular "L" plan. Front elevation: two
storeys, three bays; an elaborate and
asymmetrical front with central
doorway enclosed within open flat
roofed porch. Porch entrance with
slender marble columns with foliated
capitals supporting shallow arched
heads to entrance and flanking lights.
Enclosed doorway within decorated
surround, with slender engaged
columns to jambs, and tall overlight
with arched head. Gabled bay to left
with advanced bay to ground floor, of
two lights with four part overlight.
Moulded cornice links with that of
porch as continuous moulding. Above,
a canted first floor bay with lead
canopy. Ornate gable with slender
corner turrets with pinnacles, and an
elaborate carved apex finial. Right
hand bay not gabled but with matching
arrangement of bays below a stepped
parapet. Corbelled turrets to corners
with circular crenellated caps. Rear
range on left hand side has tall side
wall chimney and projecting stair turret
with stepped lancets to upper part.
Right side with canted corner linking
front and rear ranges, the latter with
plain undivided sash frames. 2Oth
Century joinery elsewhere. Interior
largely unaltered, with much original
decorative ceiling and wall
plasterwork, and high quality joinery including panelled doors with moulded
architraves and carved cresting, well finished and ornate principal staircase with
stained glass lights to lower partition and elaborate chimney pieces. The house,
named "The Elms" was built for William and Sarah Powell in 1896, and became a
school in 1922. The other buildings on the school site are not of special interest.
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I AND 2 FISHERS LANE, MARTON MOSS
These now rare examples of single-storey cobbled walled dwellings were probably built in
the late eighteenth century roofs are now thatch, slate and corrugated iron. Both dwellings
have doors close to the gable ends and two rectangular windows in the front wall.
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FUNNY GIRLS
FORMER ODEON CINEMA
DICKSON ROAD
1938-9 by Robert Bullivant of the firm Harry
Weedon and Partners. Steel frame clad in brick,
with white and green faience to front and black
faience to lower part of left side elevation. Roof
not seen. Rectangular double-height plan with
corner tower. Auditorium originally for 1,800
seats in stalls and single circle, with foyers on
both levels; subdivided in 1975 to form two 200seat mini-cinemas and projection box under
circle. The main auditorium comprises the
original circle, front stalls, proscenium, stage
and surrounds. Main façade a series of planes
etched with narrow bands, centred on five
lancets with metal casements under ODEON
sign. Cornice band striped in green faience.
Square corner tower set back to right side, also
faience-clad, fluted at top under ODEON signs
to each face. Original canopy over ground floor.
Side elevation of banded brick and tiles,
stepped down to rear. Ground floor clad in black
faience under original queue canopy running
the full length of the façade and now a rare
feature on a cinema. Auditorium has stage but
no fly tower. Proscenium with fluted,
streamlined surround, flanked by decorative
screens masking ventilation chambers. Ceiling
with moulded cyma decoration ascends in six
steps from the anteproscenium screen,
incorporating two bands of decorative vents and
service ducts to pairs of pendant lights. Rear
projection box now disused. Original pendant
wall-lights, six to either side. Dado panelling
and veneered barriers, moulded circle front.
Original doors with tiny viewing panes under
chrome bars. The front of the stalls with original
exit doors but now unseated. Circle foyer
retains some original seating but has been
repanelled and converted to a bar. Included as
a remarkably complete surviving Odeon
Cinema, with many original features now rare
elsewhere.
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IMPERIAL HOTEL
The four storey Central block (1866- 7 by
Clegg and Knowles of Manchester) and
south wing (1875 by Manghall and
Littlewood) are built in red brick with
stone dressings and hipped slate roofs to
a restrained French Renaissance style.
The later extension to the north (1904 by
J.D.Broadbent) is in a free Baroque style
with stone-coloured terracotta dressings
and a large single storey pavilion
projecting forward.
Four storeys and attic, originally
symmetrical, with centre rising to square
tower at attic level; centre bay and wings
slightly stepped forward, canted 4 storey
bays in wings. Eaves cornice with
brackets. Entrance porch (probably 1904)
with Corinthian order; 3 windows to each
floor above, vertically integrated in
continuous stone architrave broken by
eaves cornice, window heads slightly
arched on 1st and 2nd floor roundheaded on 3rd and attic floors. Other
windows have stone archivolts and
keystones; those of ground and 2nd
floors are round-headed, the remainder
segmental stilted, but with slightly
differing treatment to canted bays. Some
sashes. North extension (1904) with
stone-coloured terracotta dressings; 3
storeys, attic in mansard roof and large
single storey pavilion projecting forwards.
Features of this wing include a porch with
two orders, and a turret entirely clad in
terracotta, which terminates in a small
lead dome. Interior has entrance hall
(altered) with Corinthian pilasters and
columns; saloon decorated in Louis xv
style; and large dining room colonnades
and coved ceiling.
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FORMER KING EDWARD
CINEMA
CENTRAL DRIVE
Recently in use as a bingo hall, the
"Central Picture Theatre" was built in
1913, possibly one of the first purposebuilt cinemas in Lancashire. The
symmetrical facade in Accrington brick
features stone-coloured dressings, two
bullseye windows, drum and ball finial
and a red/white chequered gable-bearing
patterns in moulded terracotta.
The small foyer leads to a balconied
auditorium with decorative mouldings to
cornice, ceiling braces and seat ends.
Exterior restored and interior much
altered in conversion to "Village Pizzeria"
in spring 1986. Now stands vacant and
with door and windows boarded over.
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LITTLE MARTON MILL,
PRESTON NEW ROAD
Built of whitewashed brick, this tower
was constructed in 1842 by John Hays
on the site of an earlier mill. Worked at
least until 1923, the mill was externally
renovated in 1960, but with a parallel
sided cap rather than the traditional
"boat-shaped" Fylde cap as at
Thornton.
Windmills were a common site in the
Fylde but only a few now exist and this
particular building, situated on Preston
New Road is Blackpool's last surviving
example. The first record of a windmill
in the Fylde was one in Marton built
around 1325. This particular windmill
was built in 1842 and it was given to the
Corporation by it's last owner, Cornelius
Bagot, as a memorial to Allen Clarke, a
local poet, who immortalised this
building and Blackpool and the Fylde in
such poems as "Windmill Land" and
"The Story of Blackpool". It is a brick
tower mill and originally there were 4
floors and a cellar with an underground
passage to a kiln. The machinery was
removed and stored by the Corporation
and the roof was rebuilt in the 1950's. It
was not renewed in it's original design
but it was made into a rigid structure,
incapable of rotating, and therefore, the
machinery cannot be replaced in the
Mill. The windmill was restored by R
Thompson of Lincolnshire in 1960 and
repainted in 1973. The ground floor
was last used by a local Scout Group.
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METHODIST CHAPEL
DICKSON ROAD
Church and church rooms adjoining, 1906 1907 with later alterations including those
c1970s. Red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar
dressings to entrances, windows, pinnacles
and tower, slate roofs. Four bay nave with
transepts, three short-stage- south-west tower
and spire; church rooms of two storeys, six first
floor windows. Style: Gothic Revival with
Decorated type tracery and Art Nouveau glass.
West entrance facade: end pilaster strips with
offsets surmounted by pinnacles.
Central entrance between short, offset, pilaster buttresses, two replacement glazed doors,
with lunettes and tracery over in slightly pointed arched surround with roll, hollow and two
orders of roll moulding and hoodmould: gable over.
West entrance facade: end pilaster strips with offsets surmounted by pinnacles. Central
entrance between short, offset, pilaster buttresses, two replacement glazed doors, with
lunettes and tracery over in slightly pointed arched surround with roll, hollow and two orders of
roll moulding and hoodmould: gable over. To either side are single-light windows surmounted
by two small lights with imposts and sills. Seven-light west window has cambered arch with
hollow moulding and rosettes, hoodmould with label head stops, chamfered jambs. Panel of
foliate decoration to apex. Squat tower has offset buttresses to lower stage and two-cuspedlight window; champered first-floor band; second stage has single light with two small lights to
head and lancet window to angle in surround with columnettes; octagonal belfry stage has
slender offset buttresses to angles and louvred openings, panels of blind tracery over;
octagonal spire. Nave has stepped, three-cusped-light, mullioned windows to upper stage with
three-light, straight-headed windows to lower stage with curved transoms. Similar, four-light
windows to transepts.
All windows in chamfered surrounds and with continuous hoodmoulds to lower-stage
windows. Church Rooms: end bays break forwards; from left a square bay surmounted by a
turret, the second and sixth bays are canted to full height; the fourth bay has a gable over.
Mainly three-light mullion and mullion and transom windows; upper window to fourth bay of
five cusped lights. Entrance to fourth bay a part-glazed porch with double doors. Low parapets
and lantern with spire to roof. Interior: windows have stained glass with Art Nouveau type
flowers and foliage. Church: balcony on three sides, to aisles and west end. Arcade of pointed
arches on cast iron columns with foliate capitals in two stages, with balcony between, those to
upper stage have foliate capitals which are surmounted by octagonal pendant bosses. Aisles
have elaborate roof structure with individually angled roof to each bay. Nave has barrel
vaulted roof with ribs. Fixed pews remain throughout. Church rooms retain some original
joinery and glass.
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MINER'S CONVELESCENT
HOME
1925- 7 by Bradshaw, Glass and Hope.
Red and light brick engineering brick, with
terracotta dressings mainly to the ground
floor; slate hipped roofs. Baroque Revival.
Main block: large symmetrical, three
storeys plus attic. 2:1:3:1:3:1:3:1:3:1:2 front
elevation. The central nine-window bays
recessed between projecting wings. The
side and central windows of this part
themselves recessed, the central bay
under pediment. Rusticated brick quoins. Ground floor of central section a closed loggia with
paired columns separating large round-headed glazed doors.
The central doorway under prominent swan-necked pediment. Wings with bowed windows to
ground floor only. Asymmetrically disposed ancillary ranges to right and left; large tower to
rear, its upper stage and ogee-shaped dome visible from the front. Rear elevation treated
monumentally but with simpler detail. South elevation has single-storeyed projection with open
central colonnade giving in to day rooms. Interior: Plan centred on an axial corridor with
central staircase to rear of entrance hall. Principal rooms to ground floor; parquet floors to all
rooms at front, oak panelling and doors in formal rooms {e.g. Board Room), brass door
furniture, and generously proportioned fireplaces with oak surrounds, all in early 18th Century
style.
Ancillary and service rooms appear to be largely unaltered. An interesting and remarkably
intact example of a specialist hospital building. Stylistically it is impressive and monumental
and is set in large grounds, set back from the Promenade. Built in a period of Trade Union
expansion, it is not only an important piece of architecture but also a reflection of the social
history of England in the early 20tb Century.
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NEW CLIFTON HOTEL
Statutory description Hotel, 1865-74. Brick with
stone dressings, stone quoins and string
courses, now stuccoed and rendered, slate
roofs. Now fills 3-sided site having first
extended (1865) and then replaced (1874)
original Clifton Arms Hotel on corner of Talbot
Square and Promenade. North front of 1865 5
bays, the middle 3 symmetrical, extended on
west by addition of 2 wider bays; 4 storeys; 3rd
and 5th bays canted to full height, 7th and 8th
bays canted to 1st floor level.
1) Ground floor of rusticated stucco now has large balustraded pavilion extension in front
of first 5 bays, with arched windows; porch in Tuscan order to entrance in 6th bay
2) 1st and 2nd floors have segmental-headed sashed windows with stilted architraves; 3rd
floor has round-headed sashed windows. Bracketed eaves cornice, hipped roofs. West
return wall has two 2-storey canted bays with balustrades, and stepped-out extension 4
windows wide. Interior has staircase with carved balustrades, and richly ornamented
dining room.
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NORTH PIER
The oldest of Blackpool's three piers, this
was built in 1862-3 by R.Laidlaw and Son
of Glasgow to the designs of Eugenius
Birch. Cast iron screw piles and columns
support iron girders and a 1,070 feet long
wooden deck- a jetty of 474 feet was
added in 1867.
Benches with ornamental cast iron backs line the pier, and there are four lead roofed
hexagonal kiosks, with octagonal blue-glass lanterns surmounted by a blue minaret roof.
Cast-iron Promenade frontage added 1986.
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POST OFFICE
ABINGDON STREET
Designed by architects of the Office of Works in 1910
and built by R.Neill & Son of Manchester; slightly
altered. Portland stone with a hipped roof of green
slate. Rectangular plan parallel to street.
Renaissance style. Three storeys over cellars, with
4:7:4 windows, a symmetrical composition in which
the main range has 1;5;1 bays (outer bays breaking
forwards slightly) and the side ranges slightly set
back, with a plinth of three courses of punch-dressed
rock- faced blocks, channelled rustification and a
plain frieze to the ground floor, similar channelling to
the outer bays of the main range and at the corners
of the side ranges, giant pilasters to the upper floors
of the five-bay centre, an egg-and-dart frieze,
prominent modillioned cornice, and balustraded
parapet to the main range terminating in up stands
over its outer bays.
The outer bays of the main range have large roundheaded doorways, each with a prominent segmental
canopy borne by a pair of Atlantes on tall pedestals,
a moulded head with scrolled keyblock, and double
wooden doors with oval panels; its five-bay centre
has round-headed windows with run-out voussoirs,
triple keystones and tripartite sashed glazing with
panelled-pilaster mullions and original stained glass
(mostly wreaths and swags but that in the centre
including the Royal Arms ). On the upper floors the
five-bay centre has Ionic caps to the pilasters
enriched with lion-masks gripping festoons; twelve
pane sashed windows at first floor in raised
architraves with segmental open pediments, and
nine-pane sashes at second floor with simpler
architraves; its outer bays have similar sashed
windows, those at first floor with triple keystones and
those at second floor in architraves with aprons, and
the upstands above have bulbous cartouches with carved shields (Royal Arms to the left, surmounted
by a crown, and Blackpool Borough to the right, surmounted by a miniature windmill). The four-window
side ranges differ at ground floor, where to the left has twelve-pane sashes and that to the right has
nine-pane sashes over segmental- arched posting boxes (variously altered), but all these windows have
triple keystones; otherwise, both have twelve-pane sashes at first floor framed by panelled pilasters,
and two colonnaded three-light sashed windows at second floor with set-in Tuscan colonnettes. The
three-window left return wall is in similar style including a colonnaded window at second floor. Interior:
internal porches with carved wooden architraves to the doors, those to the hall with segmental
pediments containing moulded plaster cartouches (lettered "G VI R"); large main hall with central pillars
which have moulded plaster festoons and coffered ceiling with egg-and-dart cornices; believed to have
marble floor under modern covering. Forms group with set of eight K6 telephone kiosks immediately in
front of the building.
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PROMENADE SHELTERS, NORTH SHORE
WEST OF TRAMWAY BETWEEN:
SANDHURST AVE. AND MONTPELIER AVE.
DUCHESS DRIVE AND PEMBROKE AVE.
These single cast iron shelters sited on the cliff top were probably built in 1905.
Ornamental brackets in an open arabesque pattern support a lead-covered swept out
pavilion-shaped roof with blind bullseye dormers in each side –a needle shaped iron finial
rises from centre of the roof.
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PROMENADE SHELTERS, SOUTH SHORE
WEST OF TRAMWAY OPPOSITE:
ALEXANDRA ROAD, WELLINGTON ROAD, TRAFALGAR ROAD
These pairs of cast iron shelters flanking steps to
the beach were probably built in 1905. Ornamental brackets in an open arabesque pattern
support a lead-covered swept out pavilion-shaped roof with blind bullseye dormers in each
side –a needle shaped iron finial rises from centre of the roof.
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RAIKES HALL HOTEL
Once the house of the landowning Horn by
family and then a Catholic Convent, the
house was bought in 1871 by the Raikes
Hall Park Gardens and Aquarium Company.
Its 51-acre gardens were developed as the
principal tourist attraction in Blackpool
before the Winter Gardens and Tower. Now
a public house, the mid-eighteenth century
hall was extended in 1870. The symmetrical
design of the original building is in brick and
stucco, with stone quoins and dressings and
a hipped slate roof --the rounded-headed
doorway has a semi-circular porch with four
fluted columns.
The successful venture was
eventually affected by
competition in the form of the
Winter Gardens and Tower in
the centre of Blackpool. The
land was sold for residential
development in 1901 and there
are, unfortunately, no physical
remains of what was
Blackpool's original
entertainment centre. The hall
and the bowling green are the
only physical reminders of this
early leisure complex. It is a
white rendered building with
stone quoins and a slate roof.
The main entrance has a semi-circular canopy with 4 fluted Corinthian columns and there is a
semi-circular window over a modernised door. There is a later 19th Century extension to the
north of the original hall with larger, less refined windows and more heavily detailed eaves. The
lofty rooms have been modernised and the entrance hall and other ground floor rooms are now
one large bar with a lowered ceiling. The original staircase rises from this bar. It has an
extremely pleasant external appearance in a Georgian style which is unknown elsewhere in the
town. There are also very strong historical links with the development of Blackpool as a holiday
centre and, in both capacities; it is of great local significance.
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TELEPHONE KIOSKS,
ABINGDON STREET
GRADE 2 --Listed 14.6.1988
This group of eight cast iron telephone kiosks is situated outside the Head Post Office.
The kiosks are of the K type, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.
THREE TELEPHONE KIOSKS
TALBOTSQUARE
Grade2 --Listed 31.3.1995
Single kiosk to the east and twin kiosks to the west of the Sacred Heart Church.
Telephone kiosks type K6, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Made in cast
iron by various contractors. Each is square with a domed roof and has imperforated
crowns to top panels and margin glazing to windows and doors.
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THE SALVATION ARMY
(THE OLD GRAMMER SCHOOL)
Originally Raikes Road Technical School 190405 by Rotts Son and Hennings, subsequently
Grammar School, now Salvation Army and
Bank premises.
Brick with terracotta dressings and quoins, main roofs of slate, domes of copper. Modified Ushaped 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 coppercapped 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.
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TOWN HALL, TALBOT SQUARE
Grade 2 Listed 11.01.1974
By Potts Son and Hemming in brick and
stone dressing, the Town Hall was built
between1895 and 1900 in a Jacobean style.
The symmetrical front features a central twostorey stone entrance porch, with Tuscan
pillars at ground level and Ionic above.
From this rises a clock tower with stone
belfry and balustrade with finials, originally
surmounted by a tall spire.
The Council Chamber, set above shops, and
the Market Street facade, is lit by tall
windows and features a steeply pitched roof
surmounted by a belfry.
The Corporation Street elevation has a secondary entrance surmounted by a stone turret
and a tall traceried first floor window with a decorated shaped stone gable. Stonework and
clock restored 1985/86.
The interior has coffered ceilings, mosaic floors, marble walls, stained glass windows and a
fine staircase with ornamental iron balustrade.
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UNITED/HEBREW
SYNAGOGUE
LEAMINGTON ROAD
Erected 1916-1926 with additions and
alterations in 1955 and 1976, including
range to right. Architect, Alderman RB
Mather, JP .Red brick with ashlar
dressings, pantile and lead roofs. Main
range: the gable end is to the front and
has round-arched, coped, low parapet
behind which rises a small octagonal
dome. Built in Byzantine style the main
range is single storey, articulated
externally as two storeys, three bays,
with two storey entrance range to right.
Full height pilaster strips off-set to
angles, with pilaster strips between
upper stage windows which rise from
centrallower-stage breakforward and
with continuous chequer-board band
between stages. Windows: upper stage
has outer round-arched windows in
quoined surrounds with voussoirs to
head and keystones; central three -light
mullion and transom windows, the upper
lights are circular, in straight-headed
surround with frieze and cornice; plaque
above. Lower stage: outer three-Iight
windows; three central blind openings to
breakforward. Further range to right with
central entrance: double glazed doors,
and with casement windows to upper
stage. Left return: seven bays originally,
with three bay extension. Similar pilaster
strips to five bays and windows to six
bays: mainly round-arched thermal
windows with keystones to upper stage,
those two to left are straight-headed,
three light windows then a simplified
Venetian window with arch over an~
cornice; otherwise casements. To lower
stage are two- and three-Iight straightheaded windows each with frieze and
cornice. Entrance to end bay of original
range: double doors. Glass:good stained
glass throughout with scenes from the Torah.
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WALKER'S HILL FARMHOUSE,
BARN AND SHIPPON, MIDGELAND ROAD
Last quarter of C18. Cobbles with some brick; roofs originally thatched, now
corrugated iron (over house) .Slate and corrugated asbestos over barn/shippon
attached (but of different build, possibly c.1800) .House, 2 storeys, regular 2-window
range with door to left; all windows with Yorkshire sashes. Rear with 2 ground-floor
windows. Barn with large waggon doors and door to shippon; rear projects beyond
line of house. The shippon roof is partially collapsed. Interior: remarkably intact fittings
and plan. Flag floor; 2 shallow-chamfered ceiling beams with original joists; brick
baffle (or heck) partition. Slightly lower iron fire surround with decorative panels and
paterae; Victorian range (by Hallmark & Gill of Blackpool) .winder stair to rear. Service
rooms divided by axial partition; simple sunken panel doors with strap hinges
throughout. The first floor retains its early low partitions, planked, the doors with strap
hinges. Roof: side purlins and ridge piece. The house is divided by a full height
division. A rare survival of a C18 Fylde cobble-built farmhouse (the only one surviving
in Blackpool District).
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WAR MEMORIAL, PRINCESS PARADE
War Memorial, 1923, probably by Grayson. Very tall
obelisk of white granite ashlar on 3 stepped plinth,
standing on raised platform. Square pedestal with large
bronze relief panels depicting stylised scenes of warfare
on north and south sides, continued round corners of
east and west sides as sentinel figures: 2 soldiers on
east, sailer and airman on west. Base of obelisk
surrounded by band of incised square meander ornament
with overlaid wreath in centre of each side.
Large freestanding chest tombs on platform on north and
south sides of plinth, with roofs of cast bronze bearing
names of the fallen in relief.
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WHITE TOWER
FORMER CASINO BUILDING; PLEASURE BEACH
Pleasure beach and former casino building. 1937-40 to the designs of Joseph Emberton
for Leonard Thompson; restored and altered 1972,1977-9 by Keith Ingham. Reinforced
Concrete in the International Modern style. Circular plan, the circle broken by three
principal projections marking the main entrance and foyer, the main exit and the main
public stairs. The key to the plan were the central kitchens on the ground and first floors,
serving (on the former) a number of restaurants and (on the latter) a banqueting room.
Kitchens now on first floor only. The result is a sequence of intriguingly curved rooms;
originally there was no public access to this inner core area or directly across the building,
but this has now been provided. The basement contained stores, a billiard room and
sports facilities, now in mixed use. Between ground and first floor a mezzanine office
range, with private flat over (see below). Top floor built as roof garden, provided with a
glazed curtain wall in c1940 by Emberton and largely infilled as an extra floor in 1972.
EXTERIOR: now three floors and basement,
but still dominated by the vertical accent of the
thin spiral tower which, with a lower rectangular
plan tower (with 1970s external lift) flank the
main entrance. Long curved window bands
extend either side of the entrance, left as far as
the projecting exit block, right as far as the
glazed semi-circular planned spiral cantilever
stair. Fenestration to the remainder made up of
individual window openings of varying sizes,
some with metal casements. Various
recessions at second-floor level add variety and
a tall chimney, like that of a ship, adds a
nautical air.
INTERIOR: main bar and restaurant parts designed to be flexible and have been
considerably altered, though much is in appropriate 1930s' style, and the form of the
building with its wheel-like ceiling beams and occasional columns. Main semi-circular
staircase with glazed metal balustrading and semi-circular stair. Offices retain panelling
and built-in cabinets, with doors of similar grained verneer and some big vertical door
handles. Above, the private manager's flat is unaltered, reached up narrow curving stair
lined with ply panelling, and with stepped balustrade of similar curved timber. Figured burr
maple verneer doors and matching linings to narrow hall. Main living room with built-in burr
maple bookshelves, seating and drinks cabinet matching dado panelling; bedrooms with
fitted wardrobes, cupboards and drawers matching dado panelling; bathroom with vitrolite
cupboards and fixtures; kitchen a later addition, Joseph Emberton was the first British-born
architect to design convincingly in the Modern Movement style, and the only one included
in Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson's ground-breaking New York exhibition of
1932, 'The International Style', Included for both architectural and historic interest,
particularly for its fine surviving manager's flat.
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