B L A C K P L A N N I N G P O A N D O L C O U N C I L T R A N S P O R T A T I O N Listed Buildings in Blackpool 2006 Grade 1 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Tower 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Sacred_Heart 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Grand_Theatre 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Thanksgiving_Shrine 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Winter_Gardens 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Bispham_Church 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Bispham Church "BLOWING SANDS" (and attached wall) 166, COMMON EDGE ROAD, MARTON MOSS Grade 2 --Listed 20.10.1983 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. © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. Blackpool Council Licence No.100019178. 2006. N Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Blowing_Sands CEMETERY CHAPEL, LAYTONROAD Grade 2 --Listed 27.8.1998 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Cemetry_Chapel CENTRAL LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY Grade 2 --Listed 20.10.1983 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Central Library CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY Grade 2 --Listed 20.10.1983 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). Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Holy_Trinity CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN Grade 2 --Listed 20.10.1983 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/St_John ELMSLIE SCHOOL Grade 2 --Listed 15.3.95 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Elmslie School I AND 2 FISHERS LANE, MARTON MOSS Grade 2 --Listed 20.10.1983 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. N © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. Blackpool Council Licence No.100019178. 2006. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Fishers_Lane FUNNY GIRLS FORMER ODEON CINEMA DICKSON ROAD Grade 2 --Listed 11.3.1994 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Funny_Girls IMPERIAL HOTEL Grade 2 --Listed 20.10.1983 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. Additional Information 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Imperial FORMER KING EDWARD CINEMA CENTRAL DRIVE Grade 2 --Listed 20.10.1983 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/former_King_Edward_cinema LITTLE MARTON MILL, PRESTON NEW ROAD Grade 2 --Listed 20.10.1983 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. Additional Information 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Little_Marton_Mill METHODIST CHAPEL DICKSON ROAD Grade 2 --Listed 27.8.1998 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Methodist_Church MINER'S CONVELESCENT HOME Grade 2 --Listed 23.11.95 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Miners_Home NEW CLIFTON HOTEL Grade 2 --Listed 31.10.1974 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/New_Clifton NORTH PIER Grade 2 --Listed 19.08.1975 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. ~ Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/North_Pier POST OFFICE ABINGDON STREET Grade 2 --Listed 02.12.1991 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Post_Office PROMENADE SHELTERS, NORTH SHORE WEST OF TRAMWAY BETWEEN: SANDHURST AVE. AND MONTPELIER AVE. DUCHESS DRIVE AND PEMBROKE AVE. Grade 2 --Listed 20.10.1983 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Shelters_North PROMENADE SHELTERS, SOUTH SHORE WEST OF TRAMWAY OPPOSITE: ALEXANDRA ROAD, WELLINGTON ROAD, TRAFALGAR ROAD Grade 2 --Listed 20.10.1983 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Shelters_South RAIKES HALL HOTEL Grade 2 --Listed 20.10.1983 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. Additional Information 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Raikes_Hall 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/telephone_kiosks THE SALVATION ARMY (THE OLD GRAMMER SCHOOL) Grade 2 – Listed 6.11.1975 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Salvation_Army 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Town_Hall UNITED/HEBREW SYNAGOGUE LEAMINGTON ROAD Grade 2 --Listed 27.8.98 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Synagogue WALKER'S HILL FARMHOUSE, BARN AND SHIPPON, MIDGELAND ROAD Grade 2 --Listed 31.10.1989 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). Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/walkers_hill_farmhouse WAR MEMORIAL, PRINCESS PARADE Grade 2 --Listed 20.10.1983 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. Information; Listed Buildings GIS layer – GGP/Group Table/Listed Buildings This Document – P:/Listed Buildings/Cenotaph WHITE TOWER FORMER CASINO BUILDING; PLEASURE BEACH Grade 2 – Listed 23.11.01 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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