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Number 1 Lodge at Entrance to Botanic Gardens

A Grade II Listed Building in Southport, Sefton

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.66 / 53°39'36"N

Longitude: -2.9601 / 2°57'36"W

OS Eastings: 336652

OS Northings: 418598

OS Grid: SD366185

Mapcode National: GBR 7VR3.YQ

Mapcode Global: WH862.H8NH

Plus Code: 9C5VM26Q+2X

Entry Name: Number 1 Lodge at Entrance to Botanic Gardens

Listing Date: 29 July 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1379545

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478932

ID on this website: 101379545

Location: Churchtown, Sefton, Merseyside, PR9

County: Sefton

Electoral Ward/Division: Meols

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Southport

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside

Church of England Parish: North Meols St Cuthbert

Church of England Diocese: Liverpool

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Description



SOUTHPORT

SD3618NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown
664-1/7/256 (North side)
No.1 Lodge at entrance to Botanic
Gardens

GV II

One of a pair of lodges at main entrance to Botanic Gardens.
c1876. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings,
slate roof with bands of green fishscale slates. Neo-Jacobean
style. Modified T-plan formed by main range parallel to drive
(on its left side) and a service wing to the rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, presenting a gabled one-window facade to
Botanic Road; with quoins, a plain sill band to each floor
(carried round), steeply-pitched roof with pierced ridge
cresting and coped gable with branched apex finial.
The front gable has a rectangular bay window at ground floor
with cross-casements, shouldered reveal, cavetto cornice and
hipped lead-clad roof; a tall cross-window at first floor with
stone lintel under a stone segmental-pointed relieving arch;
and a blind quatrefoil in the gable above.
The facade to the drive has a small 5-sided single-storey bay
window in the centre with 3 narrow sashed windows, an enriched
stone frieze and a steeply-pitched hipped roof with fishscale
band. Slightly extruded chimney stack corbelled from first
floor, and to the right one cross-window on each floor, with a
gablet above the upper window.
The service wing is in similar style, also with a gablet.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms a group with No.2 Lodge (qv) and with the associated
Gate piers and gates between them (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3665218598

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