No. 367 LORD STREET

SD 3317 SE; 664-1/12/87

SOUTHPORT, LORD STREET (West side), No. 367

23/02/90

GV

II

Bank, now shop. Dated 1925-7. Designed by Palmer & Holden (in association with Finchett, Lancaster & Archer of London); altered. Portland stone (to principal elevations). STYLE: Classical Revival. PLAN: rectangular plan on corner site. EXTERIOR: Two-and-a-half unequal storeys plus attic, a symmetrical 3-bay pedimented facade to Lord Street and a 4-bay return to Nevill Street. Tall ground floor with rusticated masonry and a dentilled cornice, the two upper floors treated architecturally as one with a tetrastyle giant order of fluted Roman Doric columns and full entablature with triglyphs and mutuled pediment containing an oculus. The ground floor has a square-headed doorway in the centre with an elaborately enriched pedimented architrave, set in a tall round-headed arch with rusticated voussoirs and a cartouche on the keystone from which hang swags carved in Grinling Gibbons style. This is flanked by windows (enlarged in late C20) set in similar but elliptical-headed arches, each with an elaborate carving in the tympanum, and over it a small square opening punched through between the keystone and the cornice above. The first floor has tall cross-windows with small balustraded balconies and cornices on consoles (that in the centre with a segmental pediment), the second floor has square 2-light windows, all these windows with small panes and moulded architraves and those at second floor with lion-mask keystones in the soffit of the entablature. Return side in matching style, but with urns on the cornice between the windows of a flat-topped attic storey (and a doorway inserted at ground floor of the fourth bay). INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with No. 365 adjoining to the left (qv), and with the War Memorial in London Square opposite (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3366417400