11, WINCKLEY STREET

11, WINCKLEY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207347
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1979
List Entry Name:
11, WINCKLEY STREET
Statutory Address:
11, WINCKLEY STREET
11 Winckley Street. Built in 1799 or 1800. The first house built on Winckley Square, for William Cross, its originator.
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Date:
2005-05-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207347
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1979
List Entry Name:
11, WINCKLEY STREET
Statutory Address 1:
11, WINCKLEY STREET

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
11, WINCKLEY 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 53833 29198

Details

PRESTON

SD5329SE WINCKLEY STREET 941-1/11/307 (East side) 27/09/79 No.11

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.10A AND 11 WINCKLEY STREET. Large town house, now part of college annex (with No.5 Winckley Square, q.v.). 1799 or 1800, the first house built on Winckley Square, for William Cross, its originator. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular double-depth double-fronted plan on corner site, with gable to Winckley Square. Two storeys and attic over cellar, 5 bays, symmetrical (except for service door); ashlar plinth, 1st floor band, plain frieze and moulded cornice. The doorway in the centre is round-headed, and has a large doorcase with Tuscan pilasters, a plain frieze and prominent cornice with mutules and blocking course, a panelled door in a wooden surround with narrow side lights, a rectangular overlight and a fanlight with margin panes of engraved and coloured glass (anthemions in the band round the fanlight); and immediately left of this is a small service doorway with moulded architrave and rectangular overlight. The windows are mostly 12-pane sashes (except those to left at ground floor which have altered glazing), those at 1st floor unhorned, and have raised sills and wedge lintels; and there are 2 cellar openings each side protected by grills. One ridge chimney stack. The gabled facade to Winckley Square is 5 bays, the 1st floor with a slightly raised 3-bay centre and the gable treated as a pediment, and has tall sashes without glazing bars at ground floor, 12-pane sashes at 1st floor, and 3 attic windows, that in the centre round-headed with V-shaped glazing bars in the head. INTERIOR: staircase with ornamental cast-iron balusters; otherwise, altered.

Listing NGR: SD5385929202

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Legacy System number:
392204
Legacy System:
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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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