54,56, WEST CLIFF
54,56, WEST CLIFF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207340
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 54,56, WEST CLIFF
- Statutory Address:
- 54,56, WEST CLIFF
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207340
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 54,56, WEST CLIFF
- Statutory Address 1:
- 54,56, WEST CLIFF
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:
- 54,56, 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 53319 28804
Details
PRESTON
SD5328 WEST CLIFF 941-1/8/284 (South West side) 27/09/79 Nos.54 AND 56
GV II
Pair of town houses, now offices. Probably early 1840s; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house double-fronted. Two storeys and attic, over basement, 3+3 bays, the fronts panelled so as to give the effect of simple pilasters, plus a one-bay side wing at the left end; with stone plinth, 1st-floor bands in the panelled bays, small moulded frieze to prominent projected eaves with plastered coving. The slightly-raised centre of each house has a large doorway up 3 steps, with a stone doorcase of panelled square pilasters, frieze with rosettes, and cornice with blocking course, and a panelled door with overlight (that at No.56 with margin panes); and a 1st floor window with a cornice on consoles. The windows are all 12-pane sashes with flat-arched heads, those at ground floor recessed with panelled stone aprons and those above with raised sills and plain reveals. No.54 has a large modern continuous dormer in the roof, No. 56 has 2 small dormers. The wing to the left, 2 lower storeys, has a round-headed blind window on each floor. At each end of the range is a ramped screen wall, that to the right with a similar blind window and both with doorways. The right-hand end wall of No.54 has inter alia a round-headed sashed stair window with radiating glazing bars. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD5331928804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392181
- 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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