479 AND 481, LORD STREET
479 AND 481, LORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379657
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 479 AND 481, LORD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 479 AND 481, LORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379657
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 479 AND 481, LORD STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 479 AND 481, 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:
- 479 AND 481, 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 33787 17529
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD3317NE LORD STREET
664-1/9/94 (West side)
18/12/98 Nos.479 AND 481
GV II
Shop. 1877, by MacGibbon and Ross; altered. Red brick with
dressings of pale blue glazed brick and some sandstone, slate
roof. Victorian eclectic style, with some Italian Renaissance
features. Rectangular plan at right-angles to street.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3-window range. C20 shop-front at ground
floor under a C20 verandah; elaborately decorated upper floors
with chunky pilasters, bands of brick nail-head and other
ornament, and a heavy cornice with heavy stone brackets and a
blind-arcaded parapet with acroteria and a corbelled
open-pedimented upstand in the centre with a roundel
containing a sculpted female head.
In the centre is a wide round-headed arch rising through 2
storeys, with stone colonnettes at mid-level, a brick head
with nail-head and other enrichment, and a carved keystone
forming a bracket to the upstand above, and containing a
mullion-and-transom window at first floor and a semicircular
window of 3 round-headed lights at second floor with stone
colonnetted mullions and patterned spandrels with star-shaped
windows.
The flanking bays have narrow rectangular transomed windows at
first floor and very narrow round-headed sashes at second
floor. Except for the latter, all these windows have
small-paned leaded glazing.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Nos 469-473 to the left (qv), and with
verandah attached to Nos 487-495 adjoining to the right (qv).
Listing NGR: SD3378717529
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479057
- 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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