38, WEST CLIFF

38, WEST CLIFF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207338
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1979
List Entry Name:
38, WEST CLIFF
Statutory Address:
38, WEST CLIFF
Number 38 West Cliff. Detached town house, now part of offices. Mid 19th century, altered.
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Date:
2007-11-05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207338
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1979
List Entry Name:
38, WEST CLIFF
Statutory Address 1:
38, WEST CLIFF

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
38, WEST CLIFF

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 53252 28882

Details

PRESTON

SD5328 WEST CLIFF 941-1/8/280 (South West side) 27/09/79 No.38

GV II

Detached town house, now part of offices. Mid C19, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan. Two storeys over basement (with altered attic); a symmetrical 5-window facade, with clasping corner pilasters and slightly raised centre, stone plinth, interrupted string-course, plain frieze and moulded cornice with blocking course. The centre has a large stone porch composed of panelled square columns and pilasters, mounted on plinths with steps between and linked by simple balustrading, with anthemion and palmette decoration to the caps and a dentilled entablature with egg-and-dart frieze to the cornice, and a parapet; and a doorway with broad shouldered architrave and panelled double doors with overlight. The windows are 12-pane sashes, that over the door with a moulded architrave and cornice on consoles, and the others with raised bracketed sills and wedge lintels with raised keystones. Roof with C20 attic storey and gable chimneys. The left gable has a tall round-headed sashed stair-window with radiating glazing bars, a shorter but similar window above, and various 12-pane sashes. C20 rear wing to this side. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD5325228882

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
392177
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.

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