Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE LORD STREET
664-1/12/113 (East side)
Southport Library

GV II

Includes: Nos.1-9 EASTBANK STREET.
Bank, now part of library (internally integrated with Atkinson
Library and Art Gallery adjoining to left, qv). 1879, for the
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank; altered. Sandstone
ashlar, slate roof. Renaissance style. Rectangular plan on
corner site, with axis parallel to Eastbank Street.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic (each diminishing in height),
with facades of 3 bays to Lord Street and 7 bays to Eastbank
Street. The ground floor has channelled pilasters with
crocketed caps with frieze and cornice, each of the upper
floors has paired colonnettes with foliated caps, frieze and
cornice, and the second floor has a balustraded parapet
interrupted in the centre of each facade by a pedimented attic
window.
At ground floor the first bay of the Lord Street facade and
the centre bay of the Eastbank Street facade each contain a
large round-headed doorway with moulded head, keystone and
carved spandrels, and the other bays have tall pilastered
2-light windows, except the 3 bays to the right in Eastbank
Street (Nos 5, 7 & 9) which have inserted shop fronts. The
first floor has pilastered windows of 2 round-headed lights in
each bay, with moulded heads and keystones; the second floor
has pairs of segmental-headed windows with moulded
architraves.
INTERIOR: former banking hall has coffered ceiling with
elaborate classical enrichment.
Forms group with Atkinson Library and Art Gallery (qv)
adjoining to left, and with Southport Arts Centre (qv) linked
to that.

Listing NGR: SD3357117169

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Southport Library official website
• Wikidata Q26659913

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)