Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE LORD STREET
664-1/12/115 (East side)
15/11/72 Town Hall

GV II

Town hall. 1852-3, by Thomas Withnell. White painted stucco,
slate roof. Palladian style. Rectangular plan parallel to
street (plus later additions to rear).
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys raised on a basement treated as a plinth;
1:2:1:2:1 windows. Symmetrical, with pairs of pilasters
defining the bays, channelled rustication to the plinth and
ground floor, a frieze and cornice over each floor (the upper
dentilled), a pediment to the centre, and balustraded parapets
over the other bays.
The centre has a double parallel stone staircase with
balustraded parapet leading to a raised rectangular porch with
corner pilasters and fluted Doric columns distyle in antis,
triglyph frieze, mutule cornice and balustraded parapet; at
first floor an altered 4-pane window framed by Ionic
semi-columns and paired pilasters; and sculptured relief
figures of Justice, Mercy and Truth in the tympanum of the
pediment. Otherwise, the basement has short sashed windows;
the ground floor has tall round-headed windows with raised
sills, keystones and run-out voussoirs, and 4/2 sashes with
very slender glazing bars; and the first floor has tall 2/2
sashes with moulded architraves.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Southport Arts Centre to the right (qv) and
with Pavilion in Municipal Garden to the front (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3363017254

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Southport Town Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q18085745

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)