Museum At Botanic Gardens

SOUTHPORT

SD3618NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown 664-1/7/255 (North side (off)) Museum at Botanic Gardens

GV II

Museum. 1876, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings, slate mansard roof with glazed clerestory and fishscale bands; cast-iron verandah. Loosely Gothic style. Elongated cruciform plan formed by main range on north-south axis with shallow projection to front and wing to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 9-window range, arranged 3:3:3. Formerly symmetrical with a projected gabled centre. Stone plinth, impost band to ground floor, sill and lintel bands to first floor, bracketed gutter cornice. Attached to the centre is a tall cast-iron verandah providing a first-floor balcony, with arcaded 5-bay front and 2-bay returns, slender banded columns with barleysugar twist to the upper sections, arched openwork brackets forming 2-centred arches, and deck protected by openwork railings with delicate quatrefoil panels. The ground floor within this has a wide segmental arch containing a tripartite doorway flanked by tall segmental-pointed 2-light windows, all under relieving arches with stone hoodmoulds, and the first floor above it has tripartite French windows to the balcony flanked by tall casements, all these under segmental-pointed relieving arches. The gable above has a louvred trefoil with hoodmould, and stone coping with apex finial. The left range has 3 doorways with double doors and stilted segmental-pointed overlights, and 3 shouldered cross-windows above; the right-hand range (formerly similar) is now covered at ground floor by a large C20 conservatory. The conservatory is not of special interest. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD3665818648