Former Red Lion Hotel and Ellesmere Chambers
13, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207255
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Former Red Lion Hotel and Ellesmere Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- 13, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207255
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Former Red Lion Hotel and Ellesmere Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- 13, CHURCH STREET
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 13, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 54140 29381
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/04/2014
SD5429SW
941-1/12/70
PRESTON,
CHURCH STREET (North side),
No.13 (Former Red Lion Hotel and Ellesmere Chambers)
(Formerly listed as No. 13, Red Lion Hotel and Ellesmere Chambers)
27/09/79
GV II
Hotel and offices. c.1809, remodelled in later C19. Red brick
in Flemish bond (now painted white), with sandstone dressings
(now painted red) and slate roof. Double-depth front block
incorporating a carriage entry to the left, with a long rear
wing. Three storeys and 3 bays, the centre breaking forwards
slightly; with 1st-floor sill-band carried across, interrupted
2nd-floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded cornice with
parapet including shallow triangular upstand over centre. The
ground floor has 3 Ionic pilasters framing the centre and
right-hand bays, a pilastered central doorway with panelled
door, plain fanlight, and broken pediment above, and similar
pediments over a wide rectangular carriage entry to the left
and a similar opening to the right with large double doors (formerly to
Ellesmere Chambers); above ground floor the centre has 3 tiers
of raised panels (vertical, horizontal, and vertical with
corniced architrave), the lowest with a red lion rampant on a
moulded stage; the outer bays have windows with plain reveals,
mostly sashed without glazing bars (and the left at 1st floor
altered as a top-hung casement). INTERIOR not inspected.
History: in C19, was meeting place of Liberal parties,
especially at election times, confronting Tory Bull Hotel
opposite.
Listing NGR: SD5413229404
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391948
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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