39-57, WEST CLIFF

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207339
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: 39-57, WEST CLIFF
Statutory Address:: 39-57, WEST CLIFF

Numbers 39 to 57 (Odd) West Cliff (North East side). Terrace of 10 town houses circa 1850-60, some now flats etc. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207339
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: 39-57, WEST CLIFF
Statutory Address 1:: 39-57, WEST CLIFF

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 39-57, 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 53304 28885

Details

PRESTON

SD5328 WEST CLIFF 941-1/8/281 (North East side) 27/09/79 Nos.39-57 (Odd)

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Terrace of 10 town houses, some now flats etc. c.1850-60, altered. Sandstone ashlar at ground floor, red brick in Flemish bond above, with sandstone dressings, slate roofs (but some tiled on rear slope); and No. 51 now rendered. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with individual back extensions. Three storeys over cellars, a 20-window range (stepping up slightly between Nos.41 and 43, and Nos 49 and 51), with channelled ashlar ground floor, large ornamental cast-iron balconies to 1st floor (except No.39, and those at Nos. 53-57 missing though the brackets remain), narrow round-headed slots between the houses on the upper floors, 2nd-floor sill-bands, plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorways, to the right, have plain set-in jambs with large non-functional consoles, and panelled doors with rosettes in the corners of the panels (that at No.55 altered) with large overlights. Each house has a large tripartite sashed window at ground floor, 2 tall 4-pane sashes at 1st floor with unusually tall lower leaves (except No.49, which are altered), and short windows at 2nd floor (4-pane sashes at Nos 39-43 and No. 51, the others altered); all these upper windows with flat-arched heads. Ridge chimney stacks. Tusked brick-work at left end, as for continuation of range. INTERIOR: No.41 has dog-legged staircase to full height, with stick balusters and mahogany handrail with wreathed curtail; 3-room cellar.

Listing NGR: SD5330528887

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Legacy System number:: 392178
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.