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Hoghton Chambers

A Grade II Listed Building in Southport, Sefton

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6487 / 53°38'55"N

Longitude: -3.0001 / 3°0'0"W

OS Eastings: 333986

OS Northings: 417376

OS Grid: SD339173

Mapcode National: GBR 7VH7.8S

Mapcode Global: WH861.WKJ5

Plus Code: 9C5RJXXX+FW

Entry Name: Hoghton Chambers

Listing Date: 29 July 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1379591

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478978

ID on this website: 101379591

Location: Southport, Sefton, Merseyside, PR9

County: Sefton

Electoral Ward/Division: Duke's

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Southport

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside

Church of England Parish: Southport Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Liverpool

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Description



SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE HOGHTON STREET
664-1/12/41 (South East side)
Hoghton Chambers

II

Includes: Hoghton Chambers MORNINGTON ROAD.
Villa, now offices. Probably c1870-80; altered. Red brick with
sandstone dressings and some decorative woodwork,
steeply-pitched slate roof with three 3-course fishscale
bands. Approximately square but irregular double-depth plan,
on corner site. Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; asymmetrical 3-window facade to Hoghton
Street with a large gabled bay to the left and a smaller
gabled bay to the right: that to the left has a raised centre
which has 3 off-sets, a tall 2-light sashed window on each
floor, a blind arched lancet at attic level.
Oversailing bracketed verges to the roof further projected at
the top and decorated with bargeboarding pierced with
quatrefoils and clasping a pendant (perhaps formerly the base
of a finial).
Bay to the right projects in similar style, under a projected
gable, but with a pair of 2-light windows at ground floor, 2
segmental-headed sashes at first floor and a small
square-headed lancet at attic level. Between these bays each
floor has one tall window. Ridge chimney, and gable chimney to
right.
The 3-bay left return facade (to Mornington Road) has a
shallow gabled porch in the centre, with side buttresses, a
2-centred arched doorway moulded in 2 orders with a hoodmould,
and coped gable; above this, a single-light window; to the
left a projected gable which has a chimney extruded from first
floor (a carved stone plaque set into it, with monogram ET)
and decorated bargeboarding; and to the right a 2-storey bay
window canted at ground floor with a pair of segmental-headed
sashed windows at first floor and a gable like that to the
right in the other facade.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD3398617376

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