Number 83 and Cheshire Lines Inn

NUMBER 83 AND CHESHIRE LINES INN, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1379592
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
Number 83 and Cheshire Lines Inn
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 83 AND CHESHIRE LINES INN, KING STREET
Number 83 and Cheshire Lines Inn, formerly known as The Cross Keys, on King Street, Southport.
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Date:
2004-06-10
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1379592
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
Number 83 and Cheshire Lines Inn
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBER 83 AND CHESHIRE LINES INN, KING STREET

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBER 83 AND CHESHIRE LINES INN, KING STREET

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:
SD3331116840

Details

SD31NW
664-1/1/42
15/11/72

SOUTHPORT
KING STREET
(South East side)
No.83 and Cheshire Lines Inn

II

Formerly known as: The Cross Keys KING STREET.
Inn and livery stable, now public house and house adjoining.
Early C19, remodelled in early C20. Roughcast render on brick,
with some glazed tiling, slate roof on 2 levels. U-plan: main
range with wagon entry between inn to left; house to right,
formerly single-depth, now double depth; rear wings to both.
EXTERIOR: public house: 2 storeys; 2-window range (but
formerly the same height as No.83). Continuous flat-roofed
projection to the ground floor (replacing former bay windows),
with a dado of glazed tiling, and a central doorway
interrupting otherwise continuous fenestration of 6 and 6
lights with small-paned overlights; and at first floor a
central gable over a large Art Nouveau plaque lettered:
CHESHIRE / LINES / HOTEL, flanked by low 4-light casement
windows. The higher portion to the right has a
segmental-headed wagon archway in the first bay with a 2/2
sash above; and to the right of this is the house (No.83).
No.83; 2 storeys; 2-window range. Symmetrical, with a central
round-headed doorway protected by a gabled porch with a
round-headed arch (replacing a trellised Regency porch)
flanked by 8/8 unhorned sashes on each floor (those at first
floor square); and chimneys now on the front slope where the
former gables were. Rear wall of No.83 rebuilt in common brick
(one dated 1915).
INTERIOR: inn remodelled, house not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD3331116840

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
478979
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.

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