Lakeland With Attached Verandah

This is a late 19th century shop with an attached verandah, built around 1901, located on Lord Street, Southport. The design is in a Renaissance style, constructed from sandstone ashlar with polished granite dressings, and likely covered by a slate roof. The building has a narrow, rectangular footprint set at right angles to the street.

The ground floor features a modern shop front. The upper floors are designed as a unified composition: the first floor contains a wide oriel window with curved corners, supported by five slender granite colonettes and sandstone caps, topped by an entablature with a moulded cornice and pierced roundel parapet. The second floor is dominated by a full-width semicircular arch, seemingly enclosing the oriel, and flanked by tourelles linked by a decorative cornice. The third floor has terminal pilasters, a pair of semicircular arched windows, with altered glazing, a cornice, and a parapet. The arched window on the second floor has an elaborate, moulded surround with cartouches and an acanthus keystone, with richly carved spandrels depicting figures and cartouches, along with slender glazing bars and original small square-paned glazing. The third floor windows have a two-order enriched surround with egg-and-dart detailing and acanthus keystones.

The attached verandah, comprising three bays of unequal width (the central bay being wider), features cast-iron columns with crocket caps, pierced foliated brackets, and altered fascias with cresting including a scrolled upstand to the centre. The interior has not been inspected.

The building forms a group with numbers 339-353 to the left and 365 to the right, and the verandah contributes to the character of the street. The verandah was added in 1925 by Fred Sage & Co of London, working to a design by Packer.