Numbers 245, 249 And 251 With Attached Verandah

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE LORD STREET 664-1/12/74 (West side) 15/11/72 Nos.245, 249 AND 251 with attached verandah

GV II

Shop, with flats to upper floors; with attached verandah. 1892, altered. By EW Johnson. Red brick with white painted stone dressings, slate roof. STYLE: Renaissance. PLAN: rectangular plan at right-angles to street. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. Symmetrical. The ground floor is altered. The upper floors have 3 pilasters terminating in pinnacles and various intermediate pilaster strips, all crossed by 3 string courses and multiple bands of painted stone, and each bay has a tall shaped gable of painted stone in the centre, with strapwork enrichment. The first floor has 2 canted stone oriels of 5 transomed lights with parapets and pedimented gablets in the centre; the second floor has 2 pairs of wooden cross-windows under keyed elliptical arches with strapwork enrichment (the left pair with honeycomb glazing in the upper lights, but otherwise all with altered glazing); and the attics have wooden transomed 3-light windows. The attached verandah, of 2 wide bays, has slender cast-iron columns with crocket caps, pierced brackets to a slender beam, a C20 fascia carried round, and a single-pitched glazed roof. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with Nos 235-241 to the left (qv) and with No.253 (National Westminster Bank) to the right (qv); and the verandah is part of the series which characterize this street.

Listing NGR: SD3351017263