ROYAL BUILDINGS WITH ATTACHED VERANDAH

ROYAL BUILDINGS WITH ATTACHED VERANDAH, 127-133, LORD STREET

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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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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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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.