Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE LORD STREET
664-1/12/85 (West side)
Nos.355 AND 357
Lakeland with attached verandah

GV II

Shop with attached verandah. c1901, altered. By Packer,
verandah added 1925 by Fred Sage & Co of London. Sandstone
ashlar with some polished granite dressings, roof concealed
but probably slate. Renaissance style. Narrow rectangular plan
at right-angles to street.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys; one bay. C20 shop front at ground floor.
The first and second floors are treated as one composition,
the first floor having a wide oriel and the second floor a
full-width semicircular arch which seems to contain it and is
flanked by tourelles linked by a cornice, while the third
floor has terminal pilasters, a pair of semicircular arched
windows and a cornice and parapet. The first-floor oriel has
curved corners, 5 slender colonettes of polished granite with
sandstone crocket caps, and an entablature with a moulded
cornice and parapet of pierced roundels; the arched
second-floor window has an elaborate moulded surround with
cartouches and an acanthus keystone, and richly-carved
spandrels including figures and cartouches. Both these windows
have slender glazing bars and original small square-paned
glazing. The arched third-floor windows have surrounds with 2
orders of enrichment, including egg-and-dart, and acanthus
keystones; but altered glazing.
The attached verandah, of 3 unequal bays (the centre wider),
has cast-iron columns with crocket caps, pierced foliated
brackets, and altered fascias with cresting including a
scrolled upstand to the centre.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Nos 339-353 adjoining to the left (qv), and
with No.365 adjoining to the right (qv); and the verandah is
part of the series which characterizes this street.

Listing NGR: SD3365117388

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659886

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5