Numbers 469, 471 And 473 With Attached Verandah

SOUTHPORT

SD3317NE LORD STREET 664-1/9/93 (West side) 15/11/72 Nos.469, 471 AND 473 with attached verandah (Formerly Listed as: LORD STREET (West side) Nos.459, 465, 471 & 473)

GV II

Pair of shops, with attached verandah. Probably c1880-90; altered. Brick, with facing of applied half-timbering and some red tile-hanging, slate roof; verandah of cast-iron and glass. Rectangular 2-unit plan at right-angles to street. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attics; 2 gabled bays. C20 shop fronts at ground floor; rectangular 2-storeyed bay windows at first and second floors with wooden mullions and transomed casements, dentilled cornices to both floors and tile-hung aprons, each flanked by strips of timber and plaster panelling; attic gables with decorative applied half-timbering and oversailing verges with mutuels, that to the right with a mullion and transom window and that to the left with a formerly similar window but now lacking mullions below the transom. All these windows have small leaded panes in the top lights. The attached verandah, of 2 wide bays, has cast-iron columns (serving also as downspouts) with reeded pedestals, plain shafts, square crocket caps and enriched stilts from which spring elegantly extended foliated brackets to beams with a frieze of raised stars, and moulded gutters with cresting; single-pitched glazed roof. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with verandah attached to Nos 459-467 adjoining to left (qv) and Nos 479 & 481 to the right (qv); the verandah is part of the series which characterizes this street.

Listing NGR: SD3377717520