Description

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/09/2017

SD 4108 SW,
663-1/7/132

ORMSKIRK,
BURSCOUGH STREET (West side),
No. 43

11/05/53

GV
II

Large town house, offices when surveyed, now flats. Mid to late C18, altered and extended.
Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings, hipped
roof now clad with corrugated asbestos sheet.
Rectangular plan formed by main range parallel to the street,
with semi-circular stair-turret to the rear, with added back
extensions. Georgian style.
Three storeys with cellar and attic, 1:3:1 bays, symmetrical,
the 3-bay centre breaking forwards slightly and pedimented;
with a rendered plinth, 1st-floor band, moulded cornice and
blocking course.
The ground floor has 4-pane sashed windows and a central
round-headed doorway in an open-pedimented Ionic doorcase with
engaged columns, recessed steps to altered double doors, a
stone plaque over the lintel inscribed "URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
OFFICES", and a semi-circular fanlight.
At first floor the 3-bay centre has an arcade of round-headed
blank arches, with plain stone bases and imposts to the
pilasters, and a central round-headed sashed window with
glazing bars; and four 12-pane sashed windows with raised
sills and flat-arched heads.
The second floor has square windows with similar sills and heads,
that to the left blind and the others with altered 12-paned
glazing; and the pediment contains a pair of small
round-headed attic windows with glazing bars. Ridge chimney
and side-wall chimneys.
Right-hand return wall (to Derby Street) has various sashed
windows. Rear has semicircular stair-turret.
INTERIOR: good dog-legged open-string staircase.

Listing NGR: SD4147708381

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585111

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)