1 Vicarage Road

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1 Vicarage Road
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Location Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England
Coordinates 53°50′51″N2°59′28″W / 53.8474°N 2.991°W / 53.8474; -2.991
Area Borough of Wyre
Built1839(185 years ago) (1839)
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated16 August 1983
Reference no. 1362191
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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]

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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 western gable end has a stone plaque which is inscribed with "Poulton Savings Bank AD 1839". [2] [3]

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References

  1. A History of Blackpool, the Fylde and South Wyre – Nick Moore (2018), p. 277
  2. "1, Vicarage Road", Heritage Gateway, archived from the original on 29 September 2012, retrieved 16 April 2011
  3. Hartwell & Pevsner (2009), p. 507

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