Wayfarers Arcade with attached verandah

311, 315 and 317, Lord Street, Southport, PR8 1NY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379634
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: Wayfarers Arcade with attached verandah
Statutory Address:: 311, 315 and 317, Lord Street, Southport, PR8 1NY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379634
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jul-1999
List Entry Name:: Wayfarers Arcade with attached verandah
Statutory Address 1:: 311, 315 and 317, Lord Street, Southport, PR8 1NY

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: 311, 315 and 317, Lord Street, Southport, PR8 1NY

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 33592 17332

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 October 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.

SD3317SE 664-1/12/80

SOUTHPORT LORD STREET (west side) Nos. 311, 315 and 317 Wayfarers Arcade with attached verandah

(Formerly listed as Nos.309, 311 AND 313 Wayfarers Arcade with attached verandah) (Formerly Listed as: LORD STREET (West side) Burton Arcade: Nos 1-45 (odd), No 45A, No 49, Nos 2-42 (even), No 42A, No 44) (Formerly Listed as: LORD STREET (West side) Nos 287-307 (odd). Entrance to Burton Arcade. Nos 315-321 (odd). No 325) 15/11/72

GV II Two shops and a shopping arcade, with attached verandah. 1886, by G Smith of Glasgow. Sandstone ashlar facade, with side walls of white glazed brick, slate roofs and glass roof to arcade. Facades in Jacobean style. Large irregular plan with front shops of one and two narrow bays flanking a narrow entrance to the arcade, which widens to their rear and extends back to West Street.

EXTERIOR: three storeys and attics; one and two windows separated by gap containing arcade entrance. The shops have C20 ground floors, and upper floors with giant pilasters, fluted friezes, moulded cornices with small pediments over the centre of each bay, and steep Dutch gables (coupled to the right) with oculi and Jacobean finials; large wooden canted oriels at first floor, and mullioned three-light windows at second floor with arched centre lights.

The attached verandah, of four bays (of which the second is the entrance to the arcade), has cast-iron columns with acanthus enrichment to the pedestals, volute caps and scrolled brackets with leaves, elaborate cresting to the first bay and the third and fourth, and single-pitched glazed roofs.

The arcade entrance has a glazed barrel-vault at first floor level, with a lettered frieze and large semicircular fanlight with enriched radiating glazing bars.

INTERIOR: the arcade has a straight passage leading to an almost octagonal concourse with an aisled nave running west from this; the concourse and nave are lined with small shops restored in late C20, above which are galleries, with wrought-iron railings to the south and east sides of the concourse and the west half of the north side of the nave, but otherwise enclosed by panelled walls to shops on the upper floor, mostly oversailing, with wide windows which have arched Art Nouveau glazing in the overlights. Glazed roof on semicircular latticed girders with pitched ventilating clerestory along the apex, variously decorated.

Forms group with Nos 293-307 to the left (qv) and with Nos 319-325 adjoining to the right (qv), and the verandah is part of the series which characterizes this street.

Listing NGR: SD3359217332

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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.