Description

SOUTHPORT

SD31NW WESTCLIFFE ROAD, Birkdale
664-1/1/18 (North side (off))
15/11/72 No.4
Sunnymede School
(Formerly Listed as:
WESTCLIFFE ROAD
No.4
Wyborne Gate)

II

Villa, now school. Probably c1850-60; altered and enlarged.
Painted stucco with stone quoins (now sandtexed to the same
colour), slate roofs on several levels, hipped to the main
range. Italianate style. Irregular plan formed by double-pile
main range on north-south axis with north-east corner tower,
and service extension to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys except tower which is 3-storeyed.
Asymmetrical north entrance front of 1:3 bays, the first being
the tower. The 3-bay main range, with rusticated quoins to the
right and prominent bracketed eaves, has a rectangular
2-storey porch in the centre, with a round-headed arch which
has a keystone and enriched spandrels, a round-headed inner
doorway with margin panes, a prominent dentilled cornice to
the ground floor carried round, a round-headed sashed window
at first floor with moulded architrave including imposts and
keystone, and a dentilled cornice at eaves level surmounted by
a pierced parapet; to the left of the porch are 2
vertically-aligned stair windows, both with moulded
architraves and the upper round-headed, and to the right is
only one large 2/2 sash at ground floor, with a corniced
architrave.
The corner tower to the left, with quoins to the ground floor,
panelled giant corner pilasters to the upper floors, prominent
bracketed eaves and a pyramidal roof with apex finial, has at
ground floor one 2/2 sash with eared architrave at the front
and a similar window in the left side. Raised panel with
shield at first floor and a sashed window in the left side
with a pedimented architrave. Arcaded windows of 2 and 3
lights at second floor of the front and side respectively. 2
ridge chimneys.
The east return wall of the main range, in similar style, has
an oculus at first floor and a 2-storey canted bay window
beyond that; the 4-window west (garden) front has a very wide
canted bay window at ground floor of the first 2 bays, a
doorway and a window at ground floor with corniced
architraves, and 2/2 sashes at first floor with eared
architraves.
INTERIOR: altered.

Listing NGR: SD3283416756

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660037

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