Description

SOUTHPORT

SD31NW WESTCLIFFE ROAD, Birkdale
664-1/1/19 (North side)
15/11/72 No.6
Westcliffe

II

Villa, now 4 flats. Probably 1850; enlarged and altered.
White-painted scored stucco, hipped slate roof. Italianate
style. Double-depth double-fronted plan plus back extensions.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 3 plus one bays. 3-bay range: a
symmetrical composition with a narrow centre recessed at first
floor; quoins, a plain frieze and bracketed eaves.
The centre is filled at ground floor by a pilastered porch
which has a large round-headed doorway with keystone flanked
by round-headed windows, the whole under a moulded balustraded
balcony.
First floor has a French window with round-headed lights and a
pilastered and pedimented architrave; attached to the porch is
a very elaborate late C19 white-painted cast-iron portico of 3
by 3 bays which has barleysugar columns with tall pedestals
and Composite capitals, geometric open-work panels between the
pedestals, a deep frieze of different geometric panels, and a
hipped glazed roof with moulded gutter cornice and a projected
gabled canopy over the central entrance, the gutter cornice
and ridge enriched with cresting and finials.
The flanking bays each have a giant pilastered architrave with
plain frieze, moulded cornice and enriched upstand, framing at
ground floor a canted bay window with hornless 2/2 sashes and
at first floor a window with 2 narrow 1/1 sashes (also
hornless). Side-wall chimneys.
The additional bay to the right, narrower and lower, with a
banded corner pilaster, plain frieze and moulded cornice, has
one 1/1 unhorned sash on each floor, both with moulded
architraves and the lower with a cornice.
The left (south) return wall has a canted bay window and
towards the rear a large oriel on brackets.
INTERIOR: former billiard room at ground floor with elaborate
carved panelling.
HISTORY: the first house built on Westcliffe Road.

Listing NGR: SD3288816710

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660038

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)