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SD31NW
664-1/1/19

SOUTHPORT
Birkdale
WESTCLIFFE ROAD (north side)
No.6

(Formerly listed as No.6, Westcliffe, WESTCLIFFE ROAD)

15/11/72

II
Villa, now four flats. Probably 1850; enlarged and altered. White painted scored stucco, hipped slate roof. Italianate style. Double-depth double-fronted plan plus back extensions.

EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; three plus one bays. Three bay range: a symmetrical composition with a narrow centre recessed at first floor; quoins, a plain frieze and bracketed eaves. The centre is filled at ground floor by a pilastered porch which has a large round-headed doorway with keystone flanked by round-headed windows, the whole under a moulded balustraded balcony.

First floor has a French window with round-headed lights and a pilastered and pedimented architrave; attached to the porch is a very elaborate late C19 white painted cast-iron portico of three by three bays which has barley sugar columns with tall pedestals and Composite capitals, geometric open-work panels between the pedestals, a deep frieze of different geometric panels, and a hipped glazed roof with moulded gutter cornice and a projected gabled canopy over the central entrance, the gutter cornice and ridge enriched with cresting and finials. The flanking bays each have a giant pilastered architrave with plain frieze, moulded cornice and enriched upstand, framing at ground floor a canted bay window with hornless 2/2 sashes and at first floor a window with two narrow 1/1 sashes (also hornless). Side-wall chimneys.

The additional bay to the right, narrower and lower, with a banded corner pilaster, plain frieze and moulded cornice, has one 1/1 unhorned sash on each floor, both with moulded architraves and the lower with a cornice. The left (south) return wall has a canted bay window and towards the rear a large oriel on brackets.

INTERIOR: former billiard room at ground floor with elaborate carved panelling.

HISTORY: the first house built on Westcliffe Road.

Listing NGR: SD3288816710

External Links

• Wikidata Q26660038

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)