Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3618NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown
664-1/7/255 (North side (off))
Museum at Botanic Gardens

GV II

Museum. 1876, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with
sandstone dressings, slate mansard roof with glazed clerestory
and fishscale bands; cast-iron verandah. Loosely Gothic style.
Elongated cruciform plan formed by main range on north-south
axis with shallow projection to front and wing to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 9-window range, arranged 3:3:3.
Formerly symmetrical with a projected gabled centre. Stone
plinth, impost band to ground floor, sill and lintel bands to
first floor, bracketed gutter cornice. Attached to the centre
is a tall cast-iron verandah providing a first-floor balcony,
with arcaded 5-bay front and 2-bay returns, slender banded
columns with barleysugar twist to the upper sections, arched
openwork brackets forming 2-centred arches, and deck protected
by openwork railings with delicate quatrefoil panels.
The ground floor within this has a wide segmental arch
containing a tripartite doorway flanked by tall
segmental-pointed 2-light windows, all under relieving arches
with stone hoodmoulds, and the first floor above it has
tripartite French windows to the balcony flanked by tall
casements, all these under segmental-pointed relieving arches.
The gable above has a louvred trefoil with hoodmould, and
stone coping with apex finial.
The left range has 3 doorways with double doors and stilted
segmental-pointed overlights, and 3 shouldered cross-windows
above; the right-hand range (formerly similar) is now covered
at ground floor by a large C20 conservatory. The conservatory
is not of special interest.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD3665818648

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659793

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)