Description

SD4108SE
663-1/8/150

ORMSKIRK
DERBY STREET
(North side)
No.5
The Elms, with associated front garden wall

GV
II

House, now surgery. Mid C19; altered, and renovation in
progress at time of survey. Red brick in Flemish bond with
some sandstone dressings and hipped roof. L-plan, with short
projecting wing to left. Two storeys, 1:2 windows. The main
range has a round-headed doorway in the angle (left side of
arch dying into side of wing), with gauged brick head and
keystone, and a recessed porch with moulded wooden doorcase; a
small round-headed window above the doorway, a large
tripartite window to the right (a formerly iron verandah
protecting this now missing, and a flat-arched brick head
under construction at time of survey), and above this a
top-hung casement imitating a 4-pane sash, with a flat-arched
head and keystone. The gable of the wing has a similar window
at 1st floor, a canted bay window at ground floor, and a
pedimented gable. Front garden wall of coursed squared
sandstone with rounded coping, approx. one-and-a-half metres
high, and with a concave curve to gate piers at the right-hand
end. Forms group with No.5A to the right (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4155808387

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584907

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