Description

SD4108SE
663-1/8/154
11/08/72

ORMSKIRK
DERBY STREET
(South side)
No.36
(Formerly Listed as:
DERBY STREET
(South side)
No.36
Commercial Hotel)

GV
II

Hotel, now restaurant. Mid C19; altered.
Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate
roof. Irregular plan on corner site, with canted corner.
Three storeys over cellars, 4 windows to Derby Street, plus
canted corner to left; with a stone plinth, rusticated quoins,
plain frieze, moulded cornice and projected eaves (supported
by a large console at the right-hand corner).
The facade has a round-headed doorway in the 3rd bay, in a
stone architrave of fluted Doric semi-columns with
entablature, and an altered fanlight above this; and windows
with raised sills and wedge lintels, those at ground floor
with early C20 glazing, those at 1st floor with 12-pane
sashes, and the centre pair at 2nd floor furnished with 6-pane
sashes while the outer are blind. The canted corner to the
left has matching sashed windows at 1st and 2nd floors, and a
mask on the frieze. Various chimneys.
The left return wall (to Railway Road), 5 bays, has a doorway
in the 4th with inset pilastered doorcase and fanlight with
radiating glazing bars, and fenestration like that at the
front, including some blind windows. Forms group with Nos 11 &
13 opposite (q.v.) and with railway bridge (q.v.) and drinking
fountain (q.v.) to east.

Listing NGR: SD4162808336

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505230

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)