Clifton Estate Office

The Estate offices were built in the 1860s over what was previously the driveway into the hall. It later became offices used by the council.

Former Estate Office, with attached screen walls, Hastings Place

This is the site of the former gateway to Lytham Hall which had to be moved when the railway was built from Lytham to Blackpool in 1863. It is a fine building, built at the extremity of the Lytham Hall parkland in 1865 as the Clifton Family’s Estate Office. It remained so for well over a century, even though it was physically detached from the parkland. 

The Office was designed by Thomas Bird and Son of Manchester who also designed the chapel in Park Street. An imposing two storey building in the style common to the area, it is of red brick in English bond with sandstone dressings, and has a hipped slate roof. Its symmetrical Italianate style includes an attractive centre doorway surmounted by a Venetian style window at first floor level, the Clifton arms plaque, and a frieze. The interior has an open-string staircase with unusual balusters.

from "The listed buildings of Lytham St. Annes" - Lytham St. Annes Civic Society 2003