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SOUTHPORT

SD31NE CAMBRIDGE ROAD
664-1/2/23 (South East side)
No.28

II

Detached house. 1907, by John Hughes. Painted roughcast render
on brick, red tiled roof with swept oversailing eaves. Art
Nouveau style. Asymmetrical double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; asymmetrical 3-window
elevation, the right-hand part is projected slightly and
gabled, the gable off-set to the right and a prominent moulded
cornice carried across this, with the entrance in the slightly
set-back part to the left. This portion has a square-headed
doorway protected by a wide segmental canopy on brackets, with
run-out ends (the right-hand end of which overlaps the gabled
wider portion). Small 3-light casement at first floor off-set
left under oversailing eaves, and a flat-roofed 3-light dormer
half way up the slope of the roof.
The main range has a canted bay on the left carried up to the
cornice, with a 4-light casement on each floor. Circular
window and a wide single-storey flat-roofed canted bay window
at ground floor, a window of 3 rectangular lights at first
floor above these, a slender string course over the
first-floor windows and carried round, and a low
segmental-arched 5-light attic window in the gable.
Chimney rising from junction of roof slopes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD3540018511