BANK HOUSE

BANK HOUSE, LATHAM STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207303
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: BANK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BANK HOUSE, LATHAM STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207303
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: BANK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BANK HOUSE, LATHAM STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BANK HOUSE, LATHAM 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 54206 28834

Details

SD5428NW 941-1/14/192

PRESTON, LATHAM STREET (East side), Bank House

27/09/79

GV II

Town house. Mid C19, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan. Two storeys over cellars, a 3-window facade symmetrical except for added bay window, with 1st-floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded cornice. The central doorway has a doorcase with engaged Ionic columns, entablature, cornice and blocking course, and a cavetto surround, panelled door and overlight with margin panes. To the right is a canted bay window of stone, with cornice and blocking course, and 4-pane sashed glazing; otherwise, the ground floor has a 16-pane sash to the left, and the 1st floor has sashes of 16, 12, and 16 panes, all these windows with raised sills and wedge lintels. Roof hipped at right-hand end, with 2 chimneys behind the ridge and one at the rear wall. Right-hand return wall has 2 cellar windows, a blind window and a 12-pane sash at ground floor, and 2 windows at 1st floor with altered glazing. INTERIOR: inner porch screen with side windows, engraved and coloured glazing; moulded plaster cornice in front room right (egg-and-dart, foliation); stick-baluster staircase with wreathed mahogany handrail; full suite of cellar rooms with 2 rectangular fireplaces, remains of washing boiler, cool-store with stone table.

Listing NGR: SD5420728830

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Legacy System number:: 392079
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.