Hesketh Arms Hotel

SOUTHPORT

SD3618NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown 664-1/7/246 (North side) 29/09/51 Hesketh Arms Hotel

GV II

Hotel, now public house. Mid to later C18; enlarged and altered, and remodelled internally. White painted render on brick, graduated slate roof with similarly rendered chimneys. Irregular double-depth plan including main ranges facing west and south, with additions in angle to rear. EXTERIOR: the west front of 2 storeys and 6 irregularly disposed windows, with a moulded gutter cornice and 4 lead downspouts with large decorated hoppers. Entrance off-set slightly right of centre remodelled in 1932 as a recessed 3-bay porch with Doric columns; to the left at ground floor 5 segmental-headed windows grouped 2:2:1, and a doorway between the 2 pairs, and to the right 2 tripartite sashed windows, all these with glazing bars. The first floor has 6 sashed windows with raised sills and moulded surrounds, 2 to the left have 4/8 glazing and the others 3/6 glazing. Gable chimneys and 3 ridge chimneys. The right-hand return (south front) is a 5-window range. C20 doorway, a bow window and 3 small segmental-headed sashes at ground floor, and 3/6 sashes above. INTERIOR: retains a good C18 open-string staircase and remains of some moulded plaster ceiling decoration, but is otherwise entirely remodelled. Forms eastern boundary of good group in centre of village, including Gate piers at south-west corner of Parish Hall, St Cuthbert's Road (qv), Entrance gateway to Meols Hall to south (qv), Obelisk (qv) and Old lamp posts on green (qv), Nos 96 & 98 (qv), and Nos 100 & 102 (qv) Botanic Road to south-west, and Church of St Cuthbert (with associated items), St Cuthbert's's Road (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3654218585