Numbers 215, 217 And 219 With Attached Verandah

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SW LORD STREET 664-1/11/71 (West side) 15/11/72 Nos.215, 217 AND 219 with attached verandah (Formerly Listed as: LORD STREET (West side) Nos.179-219 (Odd))

GV II

Shops and cafe, with attached verandah. 1903, by James E Sanders; altered, and restored in late C20. Timber-framed cladding probably on steel carcase; roof of slate. Neo-Tudor style. Narrow rectangular plan on corner site. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attics; 2 unequal gabled bays. Sill bands of wood and plaster arcading at first and second floors, dentilled wooden cornice to the wider right-hand bay, and oversailing attic gables with carved bressumers and bargeboards, and tall finials. The ground floor has altered shop fronts; the first floor has a small rectangular oriel in the centre flanked by canted oriels, all these windows with ogival-headed lights; the second floor has large jettied rectangular oriels with transomed lights (6 to the left and 10 to the right plus 3 in its return; the smaller left-hand attic has transomed windows set behind a 3-bay balcony and the right-hand attic has triple cross-windows. The attached 3-bay verandah has cast-iron columns with foliated bases, composite caps and large foliated brackets, a foliated frieze, elaborate cresting to the centre bay and a curved glazed roof. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with Nos 207-213 adjoining to the left (qv) and with Nos 221-233 (qv) to the right; and the verandah is part of the series characteristic of this street.

Listing NGR: SD3345317226