Head Post Office
HEAD POST OFFICE, 130C, LORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379612
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Head Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- HEAD POST OFFICE, 130C, LORD STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379612
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Head Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEAD POST OFFICE, 130C, LORD STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- HEAD POST OFFICE, ST GEORGES PLACE
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:
- HEAD POST OFFICE, 130C, LORD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- HEAD POST OFFICE, ST GEORGES PLACE
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:
- SD3376317379
Details
664-1/12/64
SD3317SE
15/04/98
SOUTHPORT
LORD STREET
(East side)
No.130C
Head Post Office
GV
II
Includes: Head Post Office ST GEORGE'S PLACE.
Post office. 1901. By H Jansen of HM Office of Works. Red
brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Free Renaissance
style. Irregular L-plan, formed by rectangular main range to
Lord Street with larger ranges to rear.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and attic; 5 unequal bays. Symmetrical
composition in which the broader second and fourth bays break
forward above ground floor, framed by slender tourelles rising
from corbels, and terminate in featured attic gables with
pilasters and semicircular pediments.
At ground floor, which is of ashlar, the 3-bay centre has
large semi-elliptical arched windows treated as an arcade,
with an enriched impost band and arch bands, and the slightly
set-back outer bays have square-headed doorways and 3-light
overlights. Both main upper floors have tall transomed and
cross-windows, coupled in the second and fourth bays, and
those at second floor are crossed by a continuous moulded band
at transom level.
A prominent cornice carries round the whole, and above this
the gabled second and fourth bays each have a tall
round-headed window with imposts and keystone, while the
first, third and fifth bays have small dormers with steep
hipped roofs terminating in finials. All windows above ground
floor are sashed, and those to the attic have 6/6 glazing.
Ridge chimneys.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with No.130 (National Westminster Bank) to right
(qv).
Listing NGR: SD3376317379
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479003
- 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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