6, EAST CLIFF

6, EAST CLIFF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209912
Date first listed:
13-May-1974
List Entry Name:
6, EAST CLIFF
Statutory Address:
6, EAST CLIFF
Number 6 East Cliff. Dated 1846. A former Vicarage, now a hostel.
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Date:
2002-07-03
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209912
Date first listed:
13-May-1974
List Entry Name:
6, EAST CLIFF
Statutory Address 1:
6, EAST 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.

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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:
6, EAST 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 53650 28793

Details

PRESTON

SD5328NE EAST CLIFF 941-1/13/95 (South side) 13/05/74 No.6

GV II

Vicarage, now hostel. Dated 1846 on gable of porch. Snecked sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings, slate roof. Irregular double-depth plan, with projecting wing to left. C17 vernacular style, with mullioned windows and steeply pitched roofs. Two storeys and attic, raised over a basement; a wide asymmetrical facade with 4 windows at 1st floor. The wing to the left has coupled unequal gables, the smaller to the right belonging to an integral 2-storey porch, which has a Tudor-arched doorway with deep moulded surround and hoodmould (approached by a flight of steps between gatepiers in the area wall), a small lancet at 1st floor and a shield in the gable lettered "MDCCCLVI"; to the left, the main portion of the wing has a 4-light at ground floor, a smaller 3-light window at 1st floor, and a lancet to the attic. Steeply-pitched coped gables, an apex cross on the larger. The main range has a transomed 3-stage 6-light stair window near the centre, a 2-light window on each floor to the left, a large 5-light window to the right and a smaller 4-light window above. Skylight in roof; several tall triple-flue chimneys, including one rising from angle and another at the right-hand gable. Rear and INTERIOR altered.

Listing NGR: SD5365028796

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
391975
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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