St Anne's Public Offices

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St Anne’s Public Offices is a historic municipal building on Clifton Drive, St Annes-on-the-Sea, Lancashire, England. Built in 1902 to designs by architect Thomas Muirhead in the Victorian style, it was the headquarters of St Anne’s-on-the-Sea Urban District Council. It is a Grade II listed building. The five-bay front features a central projecting block with a tall arched doorway and first-floor curved sash windows. The main internal room was the council chamber, and a rear extension in 1907 added more offices. In 1922 the town merged with Lytham to form the Municipal Borough of Lytham St Annes; the old offices became an annex to the new Town Hall, and the Town Hall later served as the seat of Fylde District Council from 1974. In 2011 Fylde District Council declared the building surplus and began selling it. A 2012 proposal to convert it into a heritage centre did not proceed, and a blue plaque commemorating its history was unveiled in 2016. Fylde Foodbank used the building from 2017 to 2019 while sale talks continued.