Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3317NE
664-1/9/100
15/11/72

LORD STREET
(West side)
Nos.535-563 (Odd)
Debenhams with attached verandah
(Formerly Listed as:
LORD STREET
Nos.537-571 (Odd))

GV
II

Department store, with attached verandah. c1888-1900; enlarged
and altered. Red brick in stretcher bond, with dressings of
sandstone and some red terracotta, slate roof, and red tile
roofs to oriels. Eclectic style. Large rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, plus attics to the end bays; 2:4:2
windows. Symmetrical, with broad 2-window gabled ends, brick
pilasters, stone bands, coped parapet and gables with finials.
The ground floor has an almost continuous shop front of 12
unequal bays, with plain openings in the fifth and eighth bays
leading to a parallel internal passage, and uninterrupted
plate glass in the other bays fixed to extremely slender Art
Nouveau shafts. The first floor has wooden mullion-and-transom
oriels, those in the 4-bay centre canted (with pentice roofs
to the inner pair and hipped roofs to the outer), those in the
gabled ends linked by small overlight balustrades on brackets,
and by pentice roofs from the centre of which rise canted
second-floor oriels. Remainder of the second floor has narrow
one-light windows, grouped 4:3:3:4 in the centre, and single
windows flanking the oriels. The gables have pairs of attic
windows under 2-centred arches with carved tympani.
The attached verandah, of 10 bays, has cast-iron columns with
acanthus enrichment to the pedestals, plain shafts with volute
caps, shallow open-work brackets with a fringe carried across,
panelled decorated frieze, moulded gutter cornice with
cresting, that in the first, fifth, sixth and tenth bays
raised and elaborated, branched finials over the columns (some
missing), and a curved glass roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with verandah attached to Nos 525-533 to the left
(qv) and verandah attached to Nos 565-571 adjoining to the
right (qv); the verandah is part of the series which
characterizes this street.

Listing NGR: SD3389017598

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659903

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)