28, Cambridge Road

SOUTHPORT

SD31NE CAMBRIDGE ROAD 664-1/2/23 (South East side) No.28

II

Detached house. 1907, by John Hughes. Painted roughcast render on brick, red tiled roof with swept oversailing eaves. Art Nouveau style. Asymmetrical double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; asymmetrical 3-window elevation, the right-hand part is projected slightly and gabled, the gable off-set to the right and a prominent moulded cornice carried across this, with the entrance in the slightly set-back part to the left. This portion has a square-headed doorway protected by a wide segmental canopy on brackets, with run-out ends (the right-hand end of which overlaps the gabled wider portion). Small 3-light casement at first floor off-set left under oversailing eaves, and a flat-roofed 3-light dormer half way up the slope of the roof. The main range has a canted bay on the left carried up to the cornice, with a 4-light casement on each floor. Circular window and a wide single-storey flat-roofed canted bay window at ground floor, a window of 3 rectangular lights at first floor above these, a slender string course over the first-floor windows and carried round, and a low segmental-arched 5-light attic window in the gable. Chimney rising from junction of roof slopes. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD3540018511