Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SW LORD STREET
664-1/11/69 (West side)
15/11/72 Nos.179-205 (Odd)
with attached verandah
(Formerly Listed as:
LORD STREET
(West side)
Nos.179-219 (Odd))

GV II

Commercial building, with attached verandah. Dated 1895 on
rainwater heads; altered at various dates. Red brick with some
sandstone dressings, slate roofs; verandah of cast-iron and
glass. Eclectic style with some Queen-Anne features.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and 7 bays, with pilasters (rainwater
heads and downspouts attached to all except those at the
ends), shaped gables to the centre and end bays and swept
Dutch gables to the intermediate pairs of bays; oriel windows
to the upper floors, all 2-storeyed and canted except that in
the centre which carries up to third floor and has rounded
corners, and all with run-out bands of black-and-white
panelling between floors.
The ground floor has C20 shop fronts; all the windows of the
upper floors have wooden mullions and transoms and those at
first floor are distinguished by semicircular arched glazing
in the upper lights. At third floor the end bays have pairs of
cross windows with shouldered heads, the intermediate pairs of
bays have 8-light windows with carved stone lintels under
shallow elliptical brick heads.
8-bay verandah of cast-iron columns with vase-baluster bases,
foliated capitals, pierced ornamented brackets and frieze (the
latter missing from No.179), acroteria over the columns, and
single-pitched glazed roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Nos 163-177 to the left (qv) and Nos 207-213
adjoining to the right (qv); and the verandah part of the
series which characterizes this street.

Listing NGR: SD3342717195

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659863

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