Description

664-1/12/64
SD3317SE
15/04/98

SOUTHPORT

LORD STREET
(East side)
No.130C
Head Post Office

GV
II

Includes: Head Post Office ST GEORGE'S PLACE.
Post office. 1901. By H Jansen of HM Office of Works. Red
brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Free Renaissance
style. Irregular L-plan, formed by rectangular main range to
Lord Street with larger ranges to rear.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and attic; 5 unequal bays. Symmetrical
composition in which the broader second and fourth bays break
forward above ground floor, framed by slender tourelles rising
from corbels, and terminate in featured attic gables with
pilasters and semicircular pediments.
At ground floor, which is of ashlar, the 3-bay centre has
large semi-elliptical arched windows treated as an arcade,
with an enriched impost band and arch bands, and the slightly
set-back outer bays have square-headed doorways and 3-light
overlights. Both main upper floors have tall transomed and
cross-windows, coupled in the second and fourth bays, and
those at second floor are crossed by a continuous moulded band
at transom level.
A prominent cornice carries round the whole, and above this
the gabled second and fourth bays each have a tall
round-headed window with imposts and keystone, while the
first, third and fifth bays have small dormers with steep
hipped roofs terminating in finials. All windows above ground
floor are sashed, and those to the attic have 6/6 glazing.
Ridge chimneys.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with No.130 (National Westminster Bank) to right
(qv).

Listing NGR: SD3376317379

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659855

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