Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE LORD STREET
664-1/12/60 (East side)
Nos.102-108 AND 106A (Even)
Westminster Mansions with attached
verandah

GV II

Includes: Nos.2, 2A AND 4 Westminster Buildings EASTBANK
STREET.
Block of shops with chambers over and attached verandah. 1900
by G Bolshaw; altered. Red brick with some buff terracotta
dressings, wrought-iron balconies and slated mansard roof
(raised). Free Queen Anne style. Rectangular plan on corner
site.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus 2 attic storeys (the upper probably
added), 2:1:2:1 windows including a corner turret to the left,
the single-window second and third bays featured with
pilasters which have terracotta panels to the top storey with
Renaissance-style enrichment, 2-storey canted oriels, and
steeply-pitched Dutch gables with terracotta coping; balconies
to first and second floors of the intermediate bays, and a
prominent modillioned cornice (painted white).
The ground floor has a wide entrance to the chamber staircase
in the third bay, and shop-fronts with large plate-glass
windows in the other bays. On the main upper floors the second
and fourth bays have 5-sided painted wooden oriels which have
square upper lights with leaded glazing, and the other bays
have tall segmental-headed French windows with similar upper
lights, and sturdy balconies with wrought-iron railings
bridging the oriels and turret.
To the left is an octagonal corner turret with bands on 5
levels, square-headed windows and a swept slated roof with
wrought-iron cresting.
The mansard roof has pedimented dormers with small-paned
sashes, and its set-back upper stage has canted bay windows
behind the gables of the second and fourth bays, and sashes
with glazing bars in the other bays.
Large lateral chimney rising from third bay, another to the
right.
Five-bay left return side (to Eastbank Street) in similar
style, the second and fourth bays gabled with first-floor
oriels, a 2-storey oriel at the left end, and 3 tall lateral
chimneys.
Very prominent verandah (carried round), with large and
elaborate open-work brackets to the columns, a glazed pediment
in front of the chamber entrance lettered: WESTMINSTER
MANSIONS, and single-pitched glazed roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Cannon Cinema (qv) adjoining to the right.

Listing NGR: SD3353417164

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659851

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