Description

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD3627SW WEST BEACH, Lytham
621-1/5/96 (North side)
Clifton Arms Hotel

GV II

Hotel. 1839-40, enlarged and altered.
Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings and hipped
slate roof.
Extended double-depth plan with various back extensions and
additions. Three storeys and originally a symmetrical 5-bay
composition with central porch and full-height canted bay
windows to the outer bays; with a later-C19 4-window extension
to the right. Plinth, 1st-floor band, plain frieze, moulded
cornice and blocking course.
The centre of the original 5-bay range has an unusual
full-height open-pedimented stone porch of 3 superimposed
coupled pilasters, those at ground floor with heavily foliated
carved capitals and all with prominent moulded cornices, an
altered doorway at ground floor in an elliptical blank arch,
tripartite windows to the upper floors with cast-iron
balconies in simple geometrical patterns, and in the pediment
the Clifton shield of arms with arm-and-dagger emblem.
The canted outer bays have 3 windows to each floor, and the
intermediate 3-window ranges each have two windows at ground
floor in elliptical-headed blank arches. All the windows have
raised sills and wedge lintels, and altered glazing.
The 4-window extension to the right, with full-height canted
bays 2nd and 4th, is in similar style except that the canted
bays have round-headed windows at ground floor and the first
has a pediment containing the Clifton arms. Seven chimneys on
the front slope of the roof. Left gable wall has irregular
fenestration, and a much lower 3-storey service wing beyond.
INTERIOR remodelled in C20.

Listing NGR: SD3647327049

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579597

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)