Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE LORD STREET
664-1/12/79 (West side)
15/11/72 Nos.293-307 (Odd)
Boothroyds with attached verandah
(Formerly Listed as:
LORD STREET
(West side)
Nos 287-307 (odd). Entrance to
Burton Arcade. Nos 315-321 (odd). No
325.)

GV II

2 rows of shops, now all integrated as one; plus verandah
attached to whole range. In 2 builds, probably c1840 and
c1870; extended and altered. Left portion stuccoed, right-hand
portion of brick, all painted white, with slate roofs on 2
levels (left portion concealed, right-hand portion hipped).
Large rectangular plan in 2 portions at right-angles to
street.
EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys; 5 plus 5 windows. C20 shop fronts
at ground floor of both portions. The left portion (the
earlier) in simple Classical style, with pilasters, plain
frieze, moulded cornice and added parapet (the ends lettered:
FOUNDED / 1823): sashed window in the first bay with vertical
glazing bars and pilastered architrave with cornice, a
tripartite window in the second bay with similar architrave,
and a group of 3 one-light windows, that in the centre with a
similar architrave and the others with simple pediments.
The right-hand portion, symmetrical, has terminal pilasters,
an open-pedimented 3-bay centre with slightly raised outer
bays, a broad panelled band between first and second floors,
and segmental-headed sashed windows on both floors, those at
first floor much taller but all with shouldered architraves
and that in the centre of the second floor with scallop crest.
The attached verandah, 7 bays to the whole range, has
cast-iron columns with acanthus enrichment to the pedestals,
volute caps and spiked finials above the cresting; shallow
curved brackets with roses in the spandrels; the third and
fifth bays with paired columns, pierced fluted friezes and
elaborate cresting and the others with cresting of trefoils;
and a curved glass roof to the whole.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Nos 287-291 adjoining to the left (qv) and
with Nos 309-313 adjoining to the right (qv); and the verandah
is part of the series which characterize this street.

Listing NGR: SD3356917334

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659875

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Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)