Westminster Buildings Westminster Mansions With Attached Verandah
WESTMINSTER BUILDINGS, 2, 2A AND 4, EASTBANK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379607
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Westminster Buildings Westminster Mansions With Attached Verandah
- Statutory Address:
- WESTMINSTER BUILDINGS, 2, 2A AND 4, EASTBANK STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379607
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Westminster Buildings Westminster Mansions With Attached Verandah
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTMINSTER BUILDINGS, 2, 2A AND 4, EASTBANK STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- WESTMINSTER MANSIONS WITH ATTACHED VERANDAH, 102-108 AND 106A, LORD STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WESTMINSTER BUILDINGS, 2, 2A AND 4, EASTBANK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WESTMINSTER MANSIONS WITH ATTACHED VERANDAH, 102-108 AND 106A, LORD 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:
- SD 33534 17164
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD3317SE LORD STREET
664-1/12/60 (East side)
Nos.102-108 AND 106A (Even)
Westminster Mansions with attached
verandah
GV II
Includes: Nos.2, 2A AND 4 Westminster Buildings EASTBANK
STREET.
Block of shops with chambers over and attached verandah. 1900
by G Bolshaw; altered. Red brick with some buff terracotta
dressings, wrought-iron balconies and slated mansard roof
(raised). Free Queen Anne style. Rectangular plan on corner
site.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus 2 attic storeys (the upper probably
added), 2:1:2:1 windows including a corner turret to the left,
the single-window second and third bays featured with
pilasters which have terracotta panels to the top storey with
Renaissance-style enrichment, 2-storey canted oriels, and
steeply-pitched Dutch gables with terracotta coping; balconies
to first and second floors of the intermediate bays, and a
prominent modillioned cornice (painted white).
The ground floor has a wide entrance to the chamber staircase
in the third bay, and shop-fronts with large plate-glass
windows in the other bays. On the main upper floors the second
and fourth bays have 5-sided painted wooden oriels which have
square upper lights with leaded glazing, and the other bays
have tall segmental-headed French windows with similar upper
lights, and sturdy balconies with wrought-iron railings
bridging the oriels and turret.
To the left is an octagonal corner turret with bands on 5
levels, square-headed windows and a swept slated roof with
wrought-iron cresting.
The mansard roof has pedimented dormers with small-paned
sashes, and its set-back upper stage has canted bay windows
behind the gables of the second and fourth bays, and sashes
with glazing bars in the other bays.
Large lateral chimney rising from third bay, another to the
right.
Five-bay left return side (to Eastbank Street) in similar
style, the second and fourth bays gabled with first-floor
oriels, a 2-storey oriel at the left end, and 3 tall lateral
chimneys.
Very prominent verandah (carried round), with large and
elaborate open-work brackets to the columns, a glazed pediment
in front of the chamber entrance lettered: WESTMINSTER
MANSIONS, and single-pitched glazed roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Cannon Cinema (qv) adjoining to the right.
Listing NGR: SD3353417164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478996
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
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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