No. 1 Argyle Road

1, ARGYLE ROAD, SOUTHPORT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379469
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: No. 1 Argyle Road
Statutory Address:: 1, ARGYLE ROAD, SOUTHPORT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379469
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: No. 1 Argyle Road
Statutory Address 1:: 1, ARGYLE ROAD, SOUTHPORT

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1, ARGYLE ROAD, SOUTHPORT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 34820 18485

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/10/2015

SD31NW 664-1/1/304

SOUTHPORT, ARGYLE ROAD, No.1

(Formerly listed as Evangelical Pentecostal Church, No. 1 ARGYLE ROAD)

28/09/98

II

Large house. Built between 1881 and 1885 in Italianate style, early-mid C20 additions and alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond, painted stone dressings, hipped slate roof, end stacks, deep bracketed eaves.

EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with raised ground floor over basement, and attics; 3 bays, square plan, the main rooms grouped around the central stair hall; single-storey scullery and added single-storey church meeting room to rear. Facade: stone steps up to pillared central porch, panelled double doors. 5-light deep bow window left, 2-light square bay window right. The upper floor windows arranged 2:1:2; plate glass sashes throughout. Rear: single-storey added bay projects on right; large central 2x3 light stair window with bathroom window of c1930 left and original paired sash windows right. Small 4-pane sash in eaves dormer and chimney left of centre. Left and right returns: shallow projecting chimney stacks, added glazed corridor left, basement windows right.

INTERIOR: a glazed, carved wooden screen divides the lobby from the entrance hall which has an original fireplace and straight flight of stone stairs with mahogany balustrade and brass torchere. The living and service rooms open off the hall, and the half-landing is lit by the 6-light coloured glass window. The upper floor also has a heated landing area and a doorway on the left at the top of the stairs opens onto the service staircase with access to ground floor scullery/ kitchen and up to attic bedrooms. The vaulted cellar is reached from a flight of stone stairs behind the main staircase. The house contains fine late C19 and early C20 original decoration in the 3 principal rooms on ground and first floors (a fourth first floor room was not seen). It includes: painted and gilded Classical-style moulded plaster ceiling cornices, friezes and roses, ornate chimneypieces of carved wood and polished stone with mirrored overmantels; panelled doors, some decorated with stencilled Classical or Arts and Crafts motifs and with original door furniture; silvered curtain rails and door fittings in the ground floor reception room front left; coloured glass in leaded lights in doors, stair window and catch-lights; wallpaper in oriental and William Morris styles. Important fittings include ornate brass Art Nouveau electroliers in ground and first floor rooms; furniture made by James Lamb of Manchester; original fitted carpets. The first-floor bathroom was built in the service area of the house in c1930 and is tiled throughout in white, with grey, pink and black Greek-style decoration. Earlier tiling is obscured by the 1950s kitchen fittings in the rear kitchen/ scullery wing on the ground floor which is reported to be built over a large water storage tank. The ground floor room rear left was extended as a church meeting room in the 1950s. The deep moulded ceiling cornice was replicated in the 4-window extension.

HISTORY: the house was built shortly after 1881 and by 1886 it was occupied by Guy Fernandes, a brewer who was born in Sandal. On the death of Mary Ellen Fernandes in 1950 it became the property of Nora Helen Bradburn, her companion. The house was sold to Frederick George Cloke of the Evangelical Church in 1952. In 2007 permission was given to convert the building into flats. (Directories of Sandal; 1891 Census; Conveyance 05/12/1952).

Listing NGR: SD3482018485

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Legacy System number:: 478856
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.