Scarisbrick Hotel (Number 239) With Attached Verandah

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SD3317SW LORD STREET 664-1/11/73 (West side) 15/11/72 Nos.235-241 (Odd) Scarisbrick Hotel (No.239) with attached verandah (Formerly Listed as: LORD STREET (West side) Nos 235 and 237. Scarisbrick Hotel. No 241.)

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Hotel, with shops at ground floor and attached verandah. 1890-91, by JE Sanders. Small red brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings (painted white), roof concealed but probably slate. Eclectic style. Large rectangular plan on corner site, at right-angles to street. EXTERIOR: 5 storeys plus turret; 4-window range. The ground floor has the hotel entrance in the third bay and C20 shop fronts in the others. The upper floors, slightly set back except the third bay, with sill bands, a simple balustraded parapet, and an octagonal turret over the third bay, have bay windows of 3 storeys in the first bay and 2 storeys in the second and fourth, all with rounded corners and 4 sashed lights on each level. The third bay has coupled 1/1 sashes on each floor, that on the third floor with a stepped hoodmould; the other windows at third and fourth floors are all of 2 lights, those at fourth floor with altered glazing. The turret has a one-light window in each side, an embattled parapet and a flagstaff. The attached verandah has 4 bays, the third forming a gabled entrance to the hotel: cast-iron columns with geometrical brackets, a pierced frieze with shields, openwork decoration in the gable including lettering: SCARISBRICK HOTEL and a glazed roof otherwise mono-pitched. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with Nos 221-233 to the left (qv) and Nos 245-251 to the right (qv), and the verandah is part of the series which characterizes this street.

Listing NGR: SD3348317277