Hoghton Chambers

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE HOGHTON STREET 664-1/12/41 (South East side) Hoghton Chambers

II

Includes: Hoghton Chambers MORNINGTON ROAD. Villa, now offices. Probably c1870-80; altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings and some decorative woodwork, steeply-pitched slate roof with three 3-course fishscale bands. Approximately square but irregular double-depth plan, on corner site. Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; asymmetrical 3-window facade to Hoghton Street with a large gabled bay to the left and a smaller gabled bay to the right: that to the left has a raised centre which has 3 off-sets, a tall 2-light sashed window on each floor, a blind arched lancet at attic level. Oversailing bracketed verges to the roof further projected at the top and decorated with bargeboarding pierced with quatrefoils and clasping a pendant (perhaps formerly the base of a finial). Bay to the right projects in similar style, under a projected gable, but with a pair of 2-light windows at ground floor, 2 segmental-headed sashes at first floor and a small square-headed lancet at attic level. Between these bays each floor has one tall window. Ridge chimney, and gable chimney to right. The 3-bay left return facade (to Mornington Road) has a shallow gabled porch in the centre, with side buttresses, a 2-centred arched doorway moulded in 2 orders with a hoodmould, and coped gable; above this, a single-light window; to the left a projected gable which has a chimney extruded from first floor (a carved stone plaque set into it, with monogram ET) and decorated bargeboarding; and to the right a 2-storey bay window canted at ground floor with a pair of segmental-headed sashed windows at first floor and a gable like that to the right in the other facade. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD3398617376