Pictures by Mike Pollard 2003 | |
Description
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| Red brick, slate pitched roof, two storeys with attic rooms. |
| Single slate pitched attic dormer to front left, glazed three sides with carved facia and ball finial. East gable has spike finial. Gable end chimneys. |
| Tiled forward facing hip to front right with ball finial. |
| Terracotta moulded eaves cornice. |
| Five ranges of round arched sashes on façade. |
| First storey, square bays with five light and five part overlights in stained glass, arched at centre with slate canopies each side of front entrance door. |
| Entrance door within pointed arch and terracotta surround. |
Datestone above right hand bay reads "Hope Villa 1893 T.R." |
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| Second storey has matching upper sill band, and continuous patterned terracotta sill band. |
| Round arches are hooded with terracotta which meet the upper sill band. |
| Right hand pair of sashes and surrounds are set forward with string course below. |
| Right hand return has 3 ranges of arched sashes, the first storey having stained glass upper lights. |
History Details
Hope Villa is one of a few Victorian examples of its kind in Thornton displaying such detail. Built originally as a detached dwelling, it shortly had Hope and Jubilee Terraces built alongside. There is stained glass in the square front bays, this is original. There isn’t much evidence of stained glass in Thornton, not that’s visible anyway, but there are other good examples. Picture by Mike Pollard 2008 Almond Villas, Lawsons Road, 1909. The upper lights of the first storey bays are quite distinctive. The letters "T.R." on the Hope Villa datestone relates to the builder Thomas Rowe. The house was originally owned by the first Thornton Cleveleys Medical Officer for Health, Dr. Frederick Schofield Rhodes and later Doctor Wylie. He lived here for some time before moving to a newly built house at Four Lanes End called Fourlands, Victoria Road East, which is diagonally opposite the Cenotaph and would have been quite imposing at that time with few surrounding buildings. |
Picture by Mike Pollard 2008 | Fourlands at Four Lanes End. |
This picture shows the Councillors walking back to the new T.U.D.C. offices in 1929. Fourlands can be seen in the background. The building on the right is Swarbrick’s Pointer Farm which later made way for the National Westminster Bank. No longer a bank but the building remains. Picture from Thornton Pictorial Review. There were no doctors in Thornton until 1900 when Dr. Rhodes started his practice, prior to this it was served by Dr. Robinson of Fleetwood. Dr. Williams who rode his tricycle from Rossall and Dr. Shikie from Poulton. Hope Villa is situated on Woodland Avenue, formerly Mill Lane, which leads to the windmill Marsh Mill. Opposite is grade II listed Trunnah Farmhouse. |