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Latitude: 53.6501 / 53°39'0"N
Longitude: -3.0032 / 3°0'11"W
OS Eastings: 333787
OS Northings: 417529
OS Grid: SD337175
Mapcode National: GBR 7VG7.M9
Mapcode Global: WH861.VJ34
Plus Code: 9C5RMX2W+2P
Entry Name: 479 and 481, Lord Street
Listing Date: 18 December 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379657
English Heritage Legacy ID: 479057
ID on this website: 101379657
Location: Southport, Sefton, Merseyside, PR9
County: Sefton
Electoral Ward/Division: Duke's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Southport
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Southport Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
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SOUTHPORT
SD3317NE LORD STREET
664-1/9/94 (West side)
18/12/98 Nos.479 AND 481
GV II
Shop. 1877, by MacGibbon and Ross; altered. Red brick with
dressings of pale blue glazed brick and some sandstone, slate
roof. Victorian eclectic style, with some Italian Renaissance
features. Rectangular plan at right-angles to street.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3-window range. C20 shop-front at ground
floor under a C20 verandah; elaborately decorated upper floors
with chunky pilasters, bands of brick nail-head and other
ornament, and a heavy cornice with heavy stone brackets and a
blind-arcaded parapet with acroteria and a corbelled
open-pedimented upstand in the centre with a roundel
containing a sculpted female head.
In the centre is a wide round-headed arch rising through 2
storeys, with stone colonnettes at mid-level, a brick head
with nail-head and other enrichment, and a carved keystone
forming a bracket to the upstand above, and containing a
mullion-and-transom window at first floor and a semicircular
window of 3 round-headed lights at second floor with stone
colonnetted mullions and patterned spandrels with star-shaped
windows.
The flanking bays have narrow rectangular transomed windows at
first floor and very narrow round-headed sashes at second
floor. Except for the latter, all these windows have
small-paned leaded glazing.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Nos 469-473 to the left (qv), and with
verandah attached to Nos 487-495 adjoining to the right (qv).
Listing NGR: SD3378717529
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