Miners' Convalescent Home, Blackpool

Miners' Convalescent Home
Location Blackpool, Lancashire
Coordinates 53°50′43″N 3°03′09″W / 53.8453°N 3.0524°W / 53.8453; -3.0524Coordinates: 53°50′43″N 3°03′09″W / 53.8453°N 3.0524°W / 53.8453; -3.0524
Built 1925–1927
Architect Bradshaw Gass & Hope
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated 23 November 1995
Reference no. 1116645
Location of Miners' Convalescent Home in Blackpool

The Miners' Convalescent Home was a convalescent home for miners in the seaside resort of Blackpool, Lancashire, England. It was built 1925–27 for Lancashire and Cheshire miners and was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales.[1][2] In 1995, English Heritage designated the home a Grade II listed building.[3]

The building was designed by Bolton architecture firm Bradshaw Gass & Hope in the Baroque Revival style.[3] It has a symmetrical plan and is on three storeys.[4] It is constructed of red brick with terracotta dressings; the hipped roofs are slate.[3] The central bays are recessed between projecting wings.[3] Towards the rear of the building there is a tower with an ogee cap.[5]

The building continued to function as a convalescent home until the 1980s and in 2005, was turned into apartments.[2][5]

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Footnotes
  1. ↑ Walton, p. 165
  2. 1 2 Blackpool Gazette, pp. 140–141
  3. 1 2 3 4 Historic England, "Miners' Convalescent Home (1116645)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 18 June 2011
  4. ↑ Champness, p. 151
  5. 1 2 Hartwell & Pevsner, p. 151
Bibliography

  • Blackpool Gazette (2007), Blackpool: Then and Now, At Heart Ltd, ISBN 1-84547-153-9
  • Champness, John (1989), Lancashire's Architectural Heritage: An Anthology of Fine Buildings, Lancashire County Planning Dept., ISBN 0-902228-71-4
  • Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-12667-0
  • Walton, John K. (1998), Backpool, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 1-85331-215-0
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