No. 43, Burscough Street

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SD 4108 SW, 663-1/7/132

ORMSKIRK, BURSCOUGH STREET (West side), No. 43

11/05/53

GV II

Large town house, offices when surveyed, now flats. Mid to late C18, altered and extended. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings, hipped roof now clad with corrugated asbestos sheet. Rectangular plan formed by main range parallel to the street, with semi-circular stair-turret to the rear, with added back extensions. Georgian style. Three storeys with cellar and attic, 1:3:1 bays, symmetrical, the 3-bay centre breaking forwards slightly and pedimented; with a rendered plinth, 1st-floor band, moulded cornice and blocking course. The ground floor has 4-pane sashed windows and a central round-headed doorway in an open-pedimented Ionic doorcase with engaged columns, recessed steps to altered double doors, a stone plaque over the lintel inscribed "URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL OFFICES", and a semi-circular fanlight. At first floor the 3-bay centre has an arcade of round-headed blank arches, with plain stone bases and imposts to the pilasters, and a central round-headed sashed window with glazing bars; and four 12-pane sashed windows with raised sills and flat-arched heads. The second floor has square windows with similar sills and heads, that to the left blind and the others with altered 12-paned glazing; and the pediment contains a pair of small round-headed attic windows with glazing bars. Ridge chimney and side-wall chimneys. Right-hand return wall (to Derby Street) has various sashed windows. Rear has semicircular stair-turret. INTERIOR: good dog-legged open-string staircase.

Listing NGR: SD4147708381