Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SW LORD STREET
664-1/11/73 (West side)
15/11/72 Nos.235-241 (Odd)
Scarisbrick Hotel (No.239) with
attached verandah
(Formerly Listed as:
LORD STREET
(West side)
Nos 235 and 237. Scarisbrick Hotel.
No 241.)

GV II

Hotel, with shops at ground floor and attached verandah.
1890-91, by JE Sanders. Small red brick in Flemish bond with
stone dressings (painted white), roof concealed but probably
slate. Eclectic style. Large rectangular plan on corner site,
at right-angles to street.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys plus turret; 4-window range. The ground
floor has the hotel entrance in the third bay and C20 shop
fronts in the others. The upper floors, slightly set back
except the third bay, with sill bands, a simple balustraded
parapet, and an octagonal turret over the third bay, have bay
windows of 3 storeys in the first bay and 2 storeys in the
second and fourth, all with rounded corners and 4 sashed
lights on each level. The third bay has coupled 1/1 sashes on
each floor, that on the third floor with a stepped hoodmould;
the other windows at third and fourth floors are all of 2
lights, those at fourth floor with altered glazing. The turret
has a one-light window in each side, an embattled parapet and
a flagstaff.
The attached verandah has 4 bays, the third forming a gabled
entrance to the hotel: cast-iron columns with geometrical
brackets, a pierced frieze with shields, openwork decoration
in the gable including lettering: SCARISBRICK HOTEL and a
glazed roof otherwise mono-pitched.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Nos 221-233 to the left (qv) and Nos 245-251
to the right (qv), and the verandah is part of the series
which characterizes this street.

Listing NGR: SD3348317277

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659869

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)