Boothroyds With Attached Verandah

This is a two-part building comprising two rows of shops, now integrated into a single structure, with an attached verandah, located on Lord Street, Southport. The building was likely constructed around the 1840s and 1870s, with subsequent extensions and alterations.

The left portion of the building is stuccoed, while the right-hand portion is brick, both painted white, and topped with slate roofs – the left portion’s roof is concealed, while the right portion has a hipped form. The building has a rectangular plan with two portions set at right angles to the street.

The exterior presents two and three storeys, with a total of ten windows. Modern shop fronts occupy the ground floor of both sections. The earlier, left portion is in a simple Classical style, featuring pilasters, a plain frieze, a moulded cornice, and an added parapet inscribed “FOUNDED / 1823.” It contains a sash window with vertical glazing bars in a pilastered architrave with a cornice, a tripartite window with a similar architrave, and a group of three single-light windows, the central one framed by an architrave and the others with simple pediments. The right-hand portion is symmetrical, with terminal pilasters, an open-pedimented central three-bay section with slightly raised outer bays, a broad panelled band between the first and second floors, and segmental-headed sash windows on both floors. The first-floor windows are taller and have shouldered architraves; the centrally located window on the second floor features a scallop crest.

The attached verandah extends across the entire building, consisting of seven bays with cast-iron columns. These columns have acanthus enrichment to the pedestals, volute capitals, and spiked finials above the cresting. Shallow curved brackets display roses in the spandrels, while the third and fifth bays have paired columns alongside pierced fluted friezes and elaborate cresting, with the remaining bays having trefoil cresting. A curved glass roof covers the entire verandah.

The interior was not inspected during the listing process. The building forms a group with Nos. 287-291 to the left and Nos. 309-313 to the right, and the verandah contributes to the characteristic appearance of Lord Street.