Description

SOUTHPORT

SD31NE PARK CRESCENT
664-1/2/140 (North side)
15/11/72 No.37
Salfordian

GV II

Villa, now holiday hotel for elderly. c1870, altered; C20
annexe to rear. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone
dressings and hipped slate roof. Eclectic style with some
Gothic features. Irregular double-pile plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement; 3-window range. The first
bay breaks forward under a gable and the third has a large bow
with a conical roof. Chamfered stone plinth, first-floor sill
band and wooden bracketed eaves.
The centre has a shallow rectangular porch with brattished
parapet, 2-centred arched doorway with colonnettes, C20 double
doors, a quatrefoil in the tympanum, and a moulded head with
foliated stops. At first floor a 1/1 sash with 2-centred
arched head.
The left bay has windows of 3, 2 and one lights on successive
floors, those at ground and first floors with colonnette
mullions and arched heads (segmental at ground floor and
2-centred above). The bow, which is 5-sided at ground floor
and semicircular above, has 5 1/1 sashes on each floor, those
on the upper floors with stone colonnette mullions.
The right-hand return has a 2-storey 5-sided bay window.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with No.39 (qv), No.41 (qv) and No.45 (qv), the
last of which is the same design in reflected reversal.

Listing NGR: SD3501818438

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