Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE LORD STREET
664-1/12/84 (West side)
15/11/72 Nos.339-353 (Odd)
Albany Buildings and verandah
attached to Nos 339-343
(Formerly Listed as:
LORD STREET
(West side)
Nos.335, 339-343 (Odd))

GV II

Block of shops with offices over, and verandah attached to Nos
339-343. 1882, altered. By EW Johnson. Red brick in stretcher
bond with sandstone dressings, some red tiles and applied
half-timbering, slate roofs. Eclectic style with some Gothic
and some Neo-Tudor features.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attics; 5 unequal bays, formerly
symmetrical, with 2 pairs of gabled bays flanking a narrow
centre which has a passage entry at ground floor and a small
pinnacled balustrade between the inner gables.
The ground floor has C20 shop fronts. The upper floors are
pilastered and elaborately featured: at first floor the 2 bays
to the left have canted oriels under tiled pentice roofs on
brackets, but the 2 bays to the right, formerly similar, have
C20 flush windows with rendered surrounds painted white; at
second floor all the gabled bays have 3-light windows with
elaborate stone surrounds including pairs of colonettes
variously enriched, those in the outer bays with shouldered
heads and those in the inner bays with Gothic 2-centred arches
and carved tympani. At attic level the inner bays have gables
with pairs of small oculi, sunk panels above these lettered:
ALBANY BUILDINGS, and ridged copings with crockets, that to
the left surmounted by a lion displaying a shield (the other
now lacking this); while the outer bays have balconies, that
to the right in the form of a gallery with elaborately-carved
woodwork carrying a projected half-timbered gable but that to
the left remodelled and its gable set back.
The verandah attached to Nos 339-343 has 4 slender cast-iron
columns with enriched pedestals and small crocket caps, and a
single-pitched glass roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Nos 335 & 337 adjoining to the left (qv) and
Nos 355 & 357 adjoining to the right (qv); and the verandah is
part of the series which characterizes this street.

Listing NGR: SD3363917377

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659885

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