Former bank, with attached verandah and former banking hall

SD3317SE 664-1/12/90

SOUTHPORT LORD STREET (West side) Nos.423-431 (Odd) Former bank, with attached verandah and former banking hall

(Formerly Listed as: LORD STREET (West side) Nos.423-431 (Odd))

15/11/72

GV II Formerly known as: Nos. 423-431 Manchester and County Bank LORD STREET.

Commercial building incorporating shops, converted to bank; now three shops with offices over. Attached verandah. 1890-92 by E.W Johnson, converted to bank 1897 by Sydney Ingham for Manchester and County Bank Ltd; altered later. Red sandstone, with mansard roof of green slate. Jacobean style. Rectangular four-unit plan (now three units) parallel with street.

EXTERIOR: two-and-a-half storeys, the first bay being a short tower. The ground floor has been altered to C20 shop fronts except No.431 which is framed by enriched pilasters. Above the verandah, each bay has a frieze with a carved panel, that to the towered first bay with raised lettering: MANCHESTER & COUNTY BANK LTD (flanked by small shields) and the others with free strap-work.

The tower has semi-octagonal tourelles framing a tall canted oriel at second floor level, with mullion-and-transom windows, a moulded cornice and pilastered parapet; above this a pedimented upstand containing a keyed oculus, and a steeply-pitched pavilion roof with cresting and finials.

The main range has slender tourelles to each bay, large canted bay windows at first floor with mullion-and-transom casements, and tall Dutch-gabled dormers with cross-windows. The attached verandah, of four bays, has slender cast-iron columns and delicately foliated open-work brackets supporting a curved glazed roof.

INTERIOR: banking hall at rear approached by passage to the right and converted to restaurant: retains much original opulent decoration.

Forms group with verandah attached to Nos 393-421 adjoining to the left (qv), and with Nos 433-453 adjoining to the right (qv), and the verandah is part of the series which characterizes this street.

Listing NGR: SD3373217469