Description

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SD3627SE
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LYTHAM ST ANNES
Lytham
EAST BEACH, (north side)
No.19 Cross and Passion Convent

(Formerly listed as No.19 Convent of the Holy Cross and Passion and St Paul's Nursing Home, CENTRAL BEACH, (north side), previously listed as: EAST BEACH, Lytham (north side) No.19, Convent of the Holy Cross and Passion)

13/01/71

GV
II
Formerly known as: East Holme, Lytham. Detached marine villa, subsequently school, now nursing home. c.1840; altered and extended. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and Cumbrian slate roof.

Irregular rectangular plan formed by main range parallel to East Beach with full-width back extension under two-span roof (and C20 additions to this). Two storeys over cellars, presenting a symmetrical three-bay facade to Eastl Beach; with a stone plinth, first-floor band, and pitched roof with projected boarded eaves and verges.The ground floor has a stone canted bay window in the centre, with a panelled parapet forming a balcony to the window above, and large three-light French windows to left and right with flat-arched heads; and is now protected by a c.1900 full-width wooden verandah which carries round the central bay window.

The first floor has sashed windows with broad margin panes and sliding louvred shutters suspended from shallow pedimented and dentilled canopies. Gable chimneys and a ridge chimney offset left of centre. Attached at the right-hand end is a conservatory covering part of the three-window gable wall, which otherwise has a doorway to the third bay with a stone architrave and shallow dentilled pediment, and at first floor a window in the centre with a stone architrave and dentilled cornice. The left gable wall has scored render and a canted oriel window at first floor.

The east side of the back extension has three pairs of sashed windows, either altered or rebuilt, and a C20 extension in the centre of the ground floor.

INTERIOR: open-well staircase; plaster ceilings in front rooms.

Forms part of a noteworthy mid-C19 seaside development of villas and boarding houses.

Listing NGR: SD3694927104

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513342

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990