Southport Library

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE LORD STREET 664-1/12/113 (East side) Southport Library

GV II

Includes: Nos.1-9 EASTBANK STREET. Bank, now part of library (internally integrated with Atkinson Library and Art Gallery adjoining to left, qv). 1879, for the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank; altered. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Renaissance style. Rectangular plan on corner site, with axis parallel to Eastbank Street. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic (each diminishing in height), with facades of 3 bays to Lord Street and 7 bays to Eastbank Street. The ground floor has channelled pilasters with crocketed caps with frieze and cornice, each of the upper floors has paired colonnettes with foliated caps, frieze and cornice, and the second floor has a balustraded parapet interrupted in the centre of each facade by a pedimented attic window. At ground floor the first bay of the Lord Street facade and the centre bay of the Eastbank Street facade each contain a large round-headed doorway with moulded head, keystone and carved spandrels, and the other bays have tall pilastered 2-light windows, except the 3 bays to the right in Eastbank Street (Nos 5, 7 & 9) which have inserted shop fronts. The first floor has pilastered windows of 2 round-headed lights in each bay, with moulded heads and keystones; the second floor has pairs of segmental-headed windows with moulded architraves. INTERIOR: former banking hall has coffered ceiling with elaborate classical enrichment. Forms group with Atkinson Library and Art Gallery (qv) adjoining to left, and with Southport Arts Centre (qv) linked to that.

Listing NGR: SD3357117169