Description

CROSBY

SJ39NW BLUNDELLSANDS ROAD WEST
778-1/3/135 (South side)
Blundellsands
No.14
Sandford

II

Villa. Later C19. Painted ashlar at ground floor, brown brick
above with painted stone dressings, hipped slate roof.
Eclectic style: Palladian proportions garbed with Victorian
Baroque features. Rectangular double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 1:3:1 windows, symmetrical, the outer
bays breaking forwards slightly; with channelled rustication
to the ground floor terminating in a broad triple-layered
frieze, chunkily rock-faced but straight-sided quoining to the
corners and to the outer bays, a convex moulded frieze over
the 2nd floor, and a prominent moulded cornice. The ground
floor has a large round-headed doorway in the centre with a
banded architrave and a keystone, flanked by rectangular
sashes with semi-circular tympana, and in each outer bay a
large 4-pane sash in a moulded surround with rounded corners
and a keystone. The 1st floor has large 4-pane sashes in the
centre and outer bays with floating crested cornices, that in
the centre flanked by narrower windows (blocked to the left
and sashed to the right) with ogival-headed surrounds; the 2nd
floor has 3 small square windows breaking the frieze, all with
altered glazing. Large chimney stacks to left and right.
2-bay right-hand return wall has a prominent canted bay to the
front room, a shallow rectangular bay to the rear, both with
cornices and blocking courses, and windows at 1st and 2nd
floor repeating the design of the centre of the front but more
closely grouped.
Rear and interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ3089499296

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549012

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