Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3618NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown
664-1/7/246 (North side)
29/09/51 Hesketh Arms Hotel

GV II

Hotel, now public house. Mid to later C18; enlarged and
altered, and remodelled internally. White painted render on
brick, graduated slate roof with similarly rendered chimneys.
Irregular double-depth plan including main ranges facing west
and south, with additions in angle to rear.
EXTERIOR: the west front of 2 storeys and 6 irregularly
disposed windows, with a moulded gutter cornice and 4 lead
downspouts with large decorated hoppers. Entrance off-set
slightly right of centre remodelled in 1932 as a recessed
3-bay porch with Doric columns; to the left at ground floor 5
segmental-headed windows grouped 2:2:1, and a doorway between
the 2 pairs, and to the right 2 tripartite sashed windows, all
these with glazing bars. The first floor has 6 sashed windows
with raised sills and moulded surrounds, 2 to the left have
4/8 glazing and the others 3/6 glazing. Gable chimneys and 3
ridge chimneys.
The right-hand return (south front) is a 5-window range. C20
doorway, a bow window and 3 small segmental-headed sashes at
ground floor, and 3/6 sashes above.
INTERIOR: retains a good C18 open-string staircase and remains
of some moulded plaster ceiling decoration, but is otherwise
entirely remodelled.
Forms eastern boundary of good group in centre of village,
including Gate piers at south-west corner of Parish Hall, St
Cuthbert's Road (qv), Entrance gateway to Meols Hall to south
(qv), Obelisk (qv) and Old lamp posts on green (qv), Nos 96 &
98 (qv), and Nos 100 & 102 (qv) Botanic Road to south-west,
and Church of St Cuthbert (with associated items), St
Cuthbert's's Road (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3654218585

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659798

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