Number 1 Lodge At Entrance To Botanic Gardens

SOUTHPORT

SD3618NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown 664-1/7/256 (North side) No.1 Lodge at entrance to Botanic Gardens

GV II

One of a pair of lodges at main entrance to Botanic Gardens. c1876. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings, slate roof with bands of green fishscale slates. Neo-Jacobean style. Modified T-plan formed by main range parallel to drive (on its left side) and a service wing to the rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, presenting a gabled one-window facade to Botanic Road; with quoins, a plain sill band to each floor (carried round), steeply-pitched roof with pierced ridge cresting and coped gable with branched apex finial. The front gable has a rectangular bay window at ground floor with cross-casements, shouldered reveal, cavetto cornice and hipped lead-clad roof; a tall cross-window at first floor with stone lintel under a stone segmental-pointed relieving arch; and a blind quatrefoil in the gable above. The facade to the drive has a small 5-sided single-storey bay window in the centre with 3 narrow sashed windows, an enriched stone frieze and a steeply-pitched hipped roof with fishscale band. Slightly extruded chimney stack corbelled from first floor, and to the right one cross-window on each floor, with a gablet above the upper window. The service wing is in similar style, also with a gablet. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms a group with No.2 Lodge (qv) and with the associated Gate piers and gates between them (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3665218598