Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE LORD STREET
664-1/12/91 (West side)
15/11/72 Nos.433-453 (Odd)
with attached verandah
(Formerly Listed as:
LORD STREET
(West side)
Nos.433-447 (Odd))
(Formerly Listed as:
LORD STREET
(West side)
Nos.451-457 (Odd))

GV II

Block of 6 shops with flats and offices over; with attached
verandah. c1880-90, altered. Red brick in stretcher bond, with
some red tile-hanging and sandstone dressings. Free Neo-Tudor
style. Rectangular block containing 6 units at right-angles to
street.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys; 5-and-a-half bays, the 5 full bays
symmetrical, with a 3-bay centre under a triplet of jettied
gables, flanked by wider bays with pilasters and altered
gables. At ground floor the fifth bay (Nos 451 & 453) has a
symmetrical Art Deco shop front of bronze and plate glass,
with a black marble plinth, a rectangular bronze border with
Vitruvian scroll decoration, a recessed door with an oval
plate-glass window and bronze facing to the lower half with 3
bronze handles curved across the window.
Plain rectangular plate-glass display windows either side, a
plain bronze rail over doorway and windows, and a deep
tripartite overlight with small leaded panes. The first floor
has wooden mullion-and-transom oriels alternately rectangular
and canted, all with tile-hung aprons and 2 arched glazing
bars in the upper lights. At second floor the 3-bay centre has
rectangular wooden oriels on brackets, and above these the
triple jettied gables, also on brackets, with tile-hanging
which includes fishscale bands, one cross-window each and
dentilled bargeboards with finials. At the same levels the
outer bays have 2 cross-windows on each floor, those at second
floor with elliptical arched brick heads with keystones and
carved tympani and those at third floor coupled and flanked by
banded pilasters. The half-bay to the right has a similar
window at first floor, but with an enriched cornice, and a
second-floor window like those adjoining.
The attached verandah, of 6 bays, has short cast-iron columns
with decorated pedestals and large Composite caps, plain
stilts with large foliated brackets, pierced friezes and a
curved glass roof (except the sixth bay where the brackets and
frieze are missing and the roof is now single-pitched).
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Nos 423-431 to the left (qv) and with
verandah attached to Nos 459-467 adjoining to the right (qv);
the verandah is part of the series which characterizes this
street.

Listing NGR: SD3375617492

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659894

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