Listed buildings in Blackpool
Page 5 of 6
Page 5: Old Grammar School, Post Office, Raikes Hall, South Shore Promenade Shelters, sundial.
Page 1 - Bispham Parish Church, Blowing Sands, Cabin Lift, Cemetary Chapel, Elmslie School, Fishers Lane. Click here
Page 2: Grand Theatre, Holy Trinity Church, Imperial Hotel, King Edward Cinema(former). Click here
Page 3: Kiosks in Abingdon Street, Kiosks in Talbot Square, Lady of Lourdes, Library and Art Gallery, Marton Mill. Click here
Page 4: Miners Convelescent Home, New Clifton Hotel, North Pier, North Shore Shelters, North Shore Methodist Chapel, Odeon Cinema. Click here
Page 6: St Johns, Synagogue, Tower, Town Hall, Walkers Hill Farmhouse, War Memorial, White Tower, Winter Gardens. Click Here
Old Grammar School
Grade 2 - Listed 6.11.1975
By Potts Son and Hemming, the “Raikes Road Technical School” was built in 1904-5 to a free Baroque style in Accrington brick with terracotta dressing and slate roof.
The southern wing, now a Salvation Army Citadel, features a large arched porch, and a three storey corner tower with octagonal lantern and copper dome and finial.
The northern (Church Street) wing, occupied by the Midland Bank, has a decorated porch surmounted by a niche containing a bust, a bay window with ornamental parapet and a copper-capped belfry.
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.
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 upstands over its outer bays.
Raikes Hall Hotel
Grade 2 - Listed 20.10.1983
Once the house of the landowning Hornby 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.
South Shore Promenade Shelters
West of the 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.
Sundial, Bispham Parish Church
Grade 2 - Listed 20.10.1983
This sun dial, on a one metre high stone shaft, is situated only a few metres to the south of the church. It is said to be the base of a former cross.