Boothroyds With Attached Verandah

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE LORD STREET 664-1/12/79 (West side) 15/11/72 Nos.293-307 (Odd) Boothroyds with attached verandah (Formerly Listed as: LORD STREET (West side) Nos 287-307 (odd). Entrance to Burton Arcade. Nos 315-321 (odd). No 325.)

GV II

2 rows of shops, now all integrated as one; plus verandah attached to whole range. In 2 builds, probably c1840 and c1870; extended and altered. Left portion stuccoed, right-hand portion of brick, all painted white, with slate roofs on 2 levels (left portion concealed, right-hand portion hipped). Large rectangular plan in 2 portions at right-angles to street. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys; 5 plus 5 windows. C20 shop fronts at ground floor of both portions. The left portion (the earlier) in simple Classical style, with pilasters, plain frieze, moulded cornice and added parapet (the ends lettered: FOUNDED / 1823): sashed window in the first bay with vertical glazing bars and pilastered architrave with cornice, a tripartite window in the second bay with similar architrave, and a group of 3 one-light windows, that in the centre with a similar architrave and the others with simple pediments. The right-hand portion, symmetrical, has terminal pilasters, an open-pedimented 3-bay centre with slightly raised outer bays, a broad panelled band between first and second floors, and segmental-headed sashed windows on both floors, those at first floor much taller but all with shouldered architraves and that in the centre of the second floor with scallop crest. The attached verandah, 7 bays to the whole range, has cast-iron columns with acanthus enrichment to the pedestals, volute caps and spiked finials above the cresting; shallow curved brackets with roses in the spandrels; the third and fifth bays with paired columns, pierced fluted friezes and elaborate cresting and the others with cresting of trefoils; and a curved glass roof to the whole. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with Nos 287-291 adjoining to the left (qv) and with Nos 309-313 adjoining to the right (qv); and the verandah is part of the series which characterize this street.

Listing NGR: SD3356917334