Post Office and Attached Railings
POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207307
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207307
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, MARKET PLACE
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:
- POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, MARKET PLACE
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 53980 29484
Details
PRESTON
SD5329SE MARKET PLACE 941-1/11/200 (North side) 27/09/79 Post Office and attached railings
GV II
Post office. 1901-03, altered. Sandstone ashlar, slate roofs. Large rectangular plan. Mixed Renaissance and Jacobean style. Three storeys with basement and attic, 1:5:1 windows, symmetrical, the outer bays breaking forwards slightly and finished with tall shaped gables; with impost band and cornice to ground floor, string course over 1st floor, dentilled cornice and blind-arcaded parapet. The ground floor has a central doorway protected by a porch with banded pilasters and segmental pediment with carving, and large round-headed windows with keyed moulded heads; the 1st floor has 5 cross-windows in the centre with pilastered and pedimented architraves, and mullion-and-transom 6-light windows at the ends, with raised pilastered architraves (linked with those of similar windows above) and the friezes with panels lettered "ER"; the 2nd floor has similar transomed windows throughout; the shaped gables, elaborately ornamented, have Diocletion windows, and the steeply-pitched roof has 5 dormers with semicircular pediments. The gable walls are in similar style, and the long 9-window ranges continued beyond have round-headed windows at ground floor and transomed 6-light windows above, the east side regular but the west side more elaborately articulated and with an open-segmental pediment over the centre, with a shield of arms, and a basement protected by attached wrought-iron railings. Rear covered by attached former Fish Market (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD5398029484
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392088
- 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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