| 1 Vicarage Road | |
|---|---|
 The building in 2010 | |
| Location | Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England |
| Coordinates | 53°50′51″N 2°59′28″W / 53.8474°N 2.991°W |
| Area | Borough of Wyre |
| Built | 1839 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Designated | 16 August 1983 |
| Reference no. | 1362191 |
  1 Vicarage Road Location in Wyre Borough  1 Vicarage Road Location in Lancashire | |
1 Vicarage Road is a Grade II listed building in the English market town of Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire. Built in 1839, it stands at the corner of Vicarage Road and Chapel Street. It directly across the latter from the Thatched House public house. Now an estate agent, the building was originally Poulton Savings Bank. It was the town's library in the 1880s.[1]
It is symmetrical, constructed of brick with stone dressings and a concrete tile roof. The front entrance is a stone doorway with a depressed-arch head and a radiating fanlight. The building is of two storeys. At the front there are two sash windows on the ground floor and three on the first, each with a stone windowsill and hood mould. There are a further two windows on each end. The right gable (looking from the front) has a stone plaque which is inscribed with "Poulton Savings Bank 1839".[2][3]
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Door detail
See also
References
- ^ A History of Blackpool, the Fylde and South Wyre – Nick Moore (2018), p. 277
- ^ "1, Vicarage Road", Heritage Gateway, archived from the original on 29 September 2012, retrieved 16 April 2011
- ^ Hartwell & Pevsner (2009), p. 507
Sources
- Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969]. Lancashire: North. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9.
External links
- A view of the building across Breck Road from the Thatched House public house – Google Street View, April 2019
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