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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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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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