Description

SOUTHPORT

SD31NW LANCASTER ROAD, Birkdale
664-1/1/8 (West side (off))
No.40

II

School. 1901, by Edward Shelbourn, with alterations and
extensions in 1908 by the same architect. Red brick with red
tiled roofs, wooden bargeboarding painted white. Simplified
Queen Anne style. Long range on east-west axis, facing south,
with short cross wings at both ends.
EXTERIOR: two-and-a-half storeys plus a short tower; 10 bays.
In front of the third bay is a projected single-storey
flat-roofed porch which has a round-headed doorway with
double-chamfered stone surround, a rectangular window to the
left and an embattled parapet. Behind is a 2-window integral
tower-bay which has vertically-offset pairs of stair windows
on 2 levels, and a square top stage with 3 round-headed
windows, a clock face and an embattled parapet.
To the left is a 2-and-a-half-storey, 2-window gabled wing
distinguished principally by a corbelled oriel in the centre
of the first floor, and left of that a short 2-storey
single-window extension with embattled parapet.
To the right of the tower the bays of the main range are
single-windowed and 2-windowed in sequence 1:2:1:2:1:2:2; the
second to the right has a large gabled attic oriel on
brackets, with 3-light sashed glazing and oversailing gable
verges with decorative strut-work in the apex; the 2-window
bays have 2-light attic windows under similar gables; the
single-window bays have single-light attic windows under
half-hipped roofs; the eighth bay has a 2-storey canted bay
window; these and most other windows are tall and
segmental-headed, and most have 2/2 sashes.
The gabled wing to the right (breaking forwards only slightly)
has an oriel like that of the left wing. 2 panelled chimney
stacks on the front slope.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A simple and effective design carried by the decorative use of
gables.

Listing NGR: SD3192915561

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659846

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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