273-277 and 281, Lord Street is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1999. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
273-277 and 281, Lord Street
- WRENN ID
- sharp-truss-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1999
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 273-277 and 281, Lord Street, PR8 1NY
- OS grid reference
- SD 335 173
- Coordinates
- 53.64801, -3.00666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a commercial building located at 273-277 and 281 Lord Street in Southport, dated 1895 on the parapet and altered over time. It is constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings and designed in the Renaissance style.
The building features four and three storeys with two plus two bays. The ground floor has 20th-century shops on either side of a foot passage. The upper floors are pilastered, and the left half has a shaped gable. There are four wooden canted oriels with arched centre lights, and a modillioned cornice runs across the top. The first and fourth oriels are two-storeyed and topped with red tiled pentice roofs supported by brackets. The upper lights of the right-hand pair of oriels and the windows above them contain original geometrical stained glass. The third-floor windows on the left side have round-headed lights. Above the second and third-floor windows, there are two panels featuring gilded floral tiles. The parapets of both sections include carved segmental pediments, with the date 1895 displayed on the second section and monograms on the others.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
273-277 and 281, Lord Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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