Central Conservative Club
CENTRAL CONSERVATIVE CLUB, 140,140A, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207260
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Central Conservative Club
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL CONSERVATIVE CLUB, 140,140A, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207260
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Central Conservative Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTRAL CONSERVATIVE CLUB, 140,140A, CHURCH STREET
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.
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:
- CENTRAL CONSERVATIVE CLUB, 140,140A, 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 54154 29349
Details
PRESTON
SD5429SW CHURCH STREET 941-1/12/79 (South side) 12/06/50 Nos.140 & 140A Central Conservative Club (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET Nos.140 & 140A The Bull and Royal Hotel)
GV II
Conservative Working Men's Club. Dated 1892-3; altered. Red brick with terracotta and sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan (embraced by Bull and Royal Hotel to right, q.v.). Jacobean style. Three storey facade of 2 bays plus corner oriel to left, with plinth, 1st-floor balcony and 2-storey octagonal corner oriel, moulded cornice, balustraded parapet with gablet over centre. Doorway to right with pedimented architrave, the bases of the jambs with inscriptions recording that the foundation stone (left) was laid by Edmund Birley Esq., JP, on December 17th 1892, and that the club was opened by the Marquis of Salisbury KG on October 17th 1893; 3 altered windows to the left; stone balcony on stone brackets, with delicately scrolled wrought-iron railings; mullion-and-transom windows on upper floors (6-lights at 1st floor, 4-lights at 2nd floor), and tall narrow transomed windows in the oriel (all these windows with sandstone surrounds); terracotta panels over windows, those at 1st floor decorated with swags, shields, etc., those over 2nd floor including panels lettered "P.C.W.M.C." and "1893". Stepped and pilastered gablet with oculus and kneelers. Left gable wall rendered. INTERIOR not inspected. History: Preston Conservative Working Men's Club originated with organisations promoted among Protestant working men following 2nd Parliamentary Reform Act in 1867, to advance the political interests of the local landlord and property developer Sir W.E.M.Tomlinson MP, in opposition to middle class Conservative leaders who founded Guildhall Street Conservative Club (Guildhall House, q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD5415429349
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391957
- 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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