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:: 479 AND 481, LORD STREET

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 479057
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.