Number 2 Lodge At Entrance To Botanic Gardens

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SOUTHPORT

SD3618NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown 664-1/7/257 (North side) No.2 Lodge at entrance to Botanic Gardens

GV II

One of a pair of lodges at main entrance to Botanic Gardens.

c1876. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings, slate roof with bands of green fishscale slates. Neo-Jacobean style. Modified T-plan formed by main range parallel to drive (on its right-hand side) and a service wing to the rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, presenting a gabled one-window facade to Botanic Road; with quoins, a plain sill band to each floor (carried round), steeply-pitched roof with pierced ridge cresting and coped gable with branched apex finial. The front gable has a rectangular bay window at ground floor with cross-casements, shouldered reveal, cavetto cornice and hipped lead-clad roof; a tall cross-window at first floor with stone lintel under a stone segmental-pointed relieving arch; blind quatrefoil in the gable above. The facade to the drive has a small 5-sided single-storey bay window in the centre with 3 narrow sashes, an enriched stone frieze and a steeply-pitched hipped roof with fishscale band.

Slightly extruded chimney stack corbelled from first floor, and to the left one cross-window on each floor, with a gablet above the upper window. The service wing is in similar style, also with a gablet. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms a group with No.1 Lodge (qv), with the associated Gate piers and gates between them (qv), and with the former Lock-up to the east (qv).





Listing NGR: SD3667018591

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0486 IOE Records taken by Bob Cottrell; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project