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SD3317SE
664-1/12/81

SOUTHPORT
LORD STREET (west side)
Nos.319-325 (Odd) with attached verandah

(Formerly listed as Nos.315-325 (Odd) with attached verandah, previously listed as: LORD STREET (West side) Nos 287-307 (odd). Entrance to Burton Arcade. Nos 315-321 (odd). No 325)

15/11/72

GV
II
Shops with offices over, and attached verandah. 1898, altered. By T Hodge; altered. Red brick with sandstone and red terracotta dressings, roof concealed but probably slate. Eclectic style with Moorish features at second floor. Rectangular plan.

EXTERIOR: three storeys and four bays, the upper floors with brick pilasters defining the bays, each bay with a moulded brick corbel table but the outer bays slightly taller and treated as turrets, with elaborate enrichment to the tops, including tourelles with twisted stone shafts and carved tops with onion finials, and brick machicolation between these with moulded stone cresting.

The ground floor has C20 shop fronts; the first floor has large rectangular four-light bay windows in the outer bays, with transoms, cusped enrichment to the top lights, decorated friezes and dentilled cornices (formerly similar bay windows in the centre bays replaced with C20 transomed windows); the second floor has Moorish horseshoe arched windows arranged 1:2:2:1, those in the centre coupled, with pointed stone arches and those in the outer bays larger and with banded circular arches, all with enriched colonnettes, and the surface of the walls above them filled with patterned terracotta tiling.

The attached verandah, of four bays, has cast-iron columns with acanthus enrichment to the pedestals, volute caps, shallow arched brackets to the beam with roses in the spandrels, plain fascia with cresting, and curved glass roof.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Forms group with Nos 311-317 adjoining to the left (qv) and No.331 to the right (qv); and the verandah is part of the series which characterizes this street.

Listing NGR: SD3361017354

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014