Description

SOUTHPORT

SD31NW LULWORTH ROAD, Birkdale
664-1/1/10 (East side)
No.1
Birkdale Lodge

GV II

Villa. c1850, altered with additions to east end. By John
Aughton. Converted to 2 flats by Wignall & Ainsworth. Scored
stucco painted white with stone dressings painted black, some
timber-framing, slate roofs.
STYLE: eclectic, combining Italianate and vernacular features.
PLAN: irregular double-depth plan with south porch-tower and
single-storey wing at north-west corner.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, a 4-bay south front in which the first
and third bays are gabled, the second is a square porch-tower
and the fourth breaks forward as a short gabled wing. The
ground floor of the tower has a round-headed doorway in the
left side (approached by a low flight of steps with a
balustrade) and a round-headed window to the front, both with
keyed arch-bands linked by a moulded impost band carried
round, and a cornice carried round; its upper floor has
continuous wooden mullioned and transomed windows with leaded
glazing and stained glass in the upper lights, and bracketed
eaves to a steeply-pitched pyramidal roof with swept
oversailing eaves and a weather-vane finial.
To the left, the first bay has a French window at ground
floor, a sash with moulded architrave at first floor, and
open-pedimental oversailing eaves with an apex finial. To the
right, the third bay has a canted bay window at ground floor
with a bracketed cornice which carries across the fourth bay,
which is canted to full height, and both these bays have
sashes and gables like the first bay. Most windows have
geometrical leaded glazing. Chimneys on the front and rear
slopes.
The left return side has giant pilasters forming 3 unequal
round-headed bays, the centre a blank arch and the outer
containing canted bay windows at ground floor, with bracketed
cornices and pierced parapets, and round-headed sashes above;
and wide open-pedimental oversailing eaves with a finial.
Continued to the rear is a single-storey wing or pavilion
which has a wide 8-light canted bay window on this side, a
projected gable above, and a large semicircular bay window on
its north side.
INTERIOR: centre occupied by full-height open hall with
timber-framed and panelled walls, carved oak fireplace, fine
C18-style staircase mounting round 2 sides, and a galleried
landing.
HISTORY: believed to be one of the first 2 houses built in
Birkdale Park, developed by the Weld Blundell family under Act
of Parliament of 1848.
(Bailey FA: History of Southport: Southport: 1955-: 198-99;
Greenwood C: Thatch, Towers and Colonnades: Southport: 1990-:
38-40).

Listing NGR: SD3300016660

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659922

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