Number 36, Cafe Bar

SD4108SE 663-1/8/154 11/08/72

ORMSKIRK DERBY STREET (South side) No.36 (Formerly Listed as: DERBY STREET (South side) No.36 Commercial Hotel)

GV II

Hotel, now restaurant. Mid C19; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Irregular plan on corner site, with canted corner. Three storeys over cellars, 4 windows to Derby Street, plus canted corner to left; with a stone plinth, rusticated quoins, plain frieze, moulded cornice and projected eaves (supported by a large console at the right-hand corner). The facade has a round-headed doorway in the 3rd bay, in a stone architrave of fluted Doric semi-columns with entablature, and an altered fanlight above this; and windows with raised sills and wedge lintels, those at ground floor with early C20 glazing, those at 1st floor with 12-pane sashes, and the centre pair at 2nd floor furnished with 6-pane sashes while the outer are blind. The canted corner to the left has matching sashed windows at 1st and 2nd floors, and a mask on the frieze. Various chimneys. The left return wall (to Railway Road), 5 bays, has a doorway in the 4th with inset pilastered doorcase and fanlight with radiating glazing bars, and fenestration like that at the front, including some blind windows. Forms group with Nos 11 & 13 opposite (q.v.) and with railway bridge (q.v.) and drinking fountain (q.v.) to east.

Listing NGR: SD4162808336