Royal Buildings With Attached Verandah
ROYAL BUILDINGS WITH ATTACHED VERANDAH, 127-133, LORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379608
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Buildings With Attached Verandah
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL BUILDINGS WITH ATTACHED VERANDAH, 127-133, LORD STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379608
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Buildings With Attached Verandah
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL BUILDINGS WITH ATTACHED VERANDAH, 127-133, 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:
- ROYAL BUILDINGS WITH ATTACHED VERANDAH, 127-133, 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 33342 17122
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD3317SW LORD STREET
664-1/11/61 (West side)
15/11/72 Nos.127-133 (Odd)
Royal Buildings with attached
verandah
(Formerly Listed as:
LORD STREET
(West side)
Nos.127-133 (Odd))
GV II
Commercial building with attached verandah. Dated 1883 in
pediment. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof; verandah of cast-iron
and glass. Classical style. Parallelogram plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 8-window range. Symmetrical; with
pilasters, sill bands to both upper floors and a band below
the upper of these lettered: ROYAL BUILDINGS. Moulded cornice
with blocking course and wide pediment to the centre.
The ground floor has shop fronts protected by an elaborate
5-bay verandah with cast-iron columns, foliated brackets, a
lettered frieze and a shallow gabled centre with arched
stained glass overlight lettered: T.R.HIGHTON. Flanking bays
have gabled open-work cresting.
Both upper floors have round-headed windows in pairs, those at
first floor linked by a moulded impost band carried across as
dentilled transoms. The pediment contains a large roundel
flanked by carving including the date 1883. Gable chimneys,
that to the left cut down.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Nos 137-141 (qv) adjoining to the right.
Listing NGR: SD3334217122
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478999
- 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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