Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3618NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown
664-1/7/257 (North side)
No.2 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 right-hand 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;
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 sashes, an enriched stone
frieze and a steeply-pitched hipped roof with fishscale band.
Slightly extruded chimney stack corbelled from first floor,
and to the left 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.1 Lodge (qv), with the associated Gate
piers and gates between them (qv), and with the former Lock-up
to the east (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3667018591

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659795

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