Wayfarers Arcade With Attached Verandah

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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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