Southport Town Hall
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Southport Town Hall
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| Location | Lord Street, Southport, Sefton, Merseyside, England |
| Coordinates | 53°38′51″N 3°00′20″W / 53.6475°N 3.0056°WCoordinates: 53°38′51″N 3°00′20″W / 53.6475°N 3.0056°W |
| OS grid reference | SD 336 173 |
| Built | 1852–53 |
| Built for | Southport Corporation |
| Architect | Thomas Withnell |
| Architectural style(s) | Palladian |
| Governing body | Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Designated | 15 November 1972 |
| Reference no. | 1379678 |
 Location in Southport town centre
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Southport Town Hall is on the east side of Lord Street, Southport, Sefton, Merseyside, England. It was built in 1852–53 in Palladian style, and extended to the rear on three occasions later in the century. The town hall has a symmetrical stuccoed façade with a central staircase leading up to a porch flanked by columns. At the top of the building is a pediment with a carved tympanum. The town hall is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
The town hall was built in 1852–53, it was designed by Thomas Withnell, and cost about £4,500. The building was extended to the rear in 1859, and was further extended in 1865, and again later in the 19th century.
Southport Town Hall has a stuccoed façade painted white, and a slate roof in Palladian style. It has a rectangular plan plus extensions to the rear. The hall is in two storeys with a basement, and it has a symmetrical front of seven bays. Between some of the bays are paired pilasters, giving a window arrangement of 1:2:1:2:1. The basement and ground floor are rusticated. Between the floors are a frieze and a cornice, the upper cornice being dentillated. In the centre of the building is a double parallel staircase with a balustraded parapet. This leads to a porch flanked by a pair of pilasters and a fluted Doric column on each side. On top of the porch is a triglyph frieze, a cornice, and a balustraded parapet. Above the porch is a balcony with a window flanked by Ionic semi-columns and paired pilasters. The windows in the basement are short and rectangular, those in the ground floor are tall and round-headed with keystones and voussoirs, and in the upper floor they are tall and flat-headed with architraves. All the windows contain sashes. Above the central bay is a pediment with a tympanum containing carved personifications of Justice, Mercy and Truth, and this is flanked by balustraded parapets. The original interiors are no longer present.
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