Golden Cross Hotel

GOLDEN CROSS HOTEL, 60, LANCASTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218185
Date first listed:
22-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:
Golden Cross Hotel
Statutory Address:
GOLDEN CROSS HOTEL, 60, LANCASTER ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218185
Date first listed:
22-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:
Golden Cross Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
GOLDEN CROSS HOTEL, 60, LANCASTER ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GOLDEN CROSS HOTEL, 60, LANCASTER ROAD

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 54072 29554

Details

PRESTON

SD5429NW LANCASTER ROAD 941-1/10/173 (East side) 22/01/90 No.60 Golden Cross Hotel

GV II

Public house. c.1860; altered. Brown brick, part stuccoed, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan with rear wing. Classical style. Three storeys with cellars and attic, 3 bays, symmetrical; pilasters and banded rustication at ground floor (which also has a cornice), rusticated quoins to the upper floors, frieze with triglyphs and guttae, prominent cornice with mutules, blocking course. The ground floor has a central doorway, narrow vertical-rectangular windows next to this and wider windows beyond these, all these windows with panelled aprons and all framed by broad pilasters terminating in large foliated consoles which carry a cornice. The 1st floor has 2-light casement windows, those in the outer bays with pedimented architraves and that in the centre with a simple moulded surround and straight cornice; the 2nd floor has sashed windows without glazing bars, all with shouldered surrounds but those in the outer bays with small decorated crests, and a plain band above with raised lettering GOLDEN CROSS HOTEL. Gable chimneys. The left return wall has 2 doorways with raised plain surrounds and small cornices (the further one blocked), 2 sashes between these with arched glazing and stained glass spandrels, two 12-pane sashes on each floor above (that on the left at 1st floor with altered glazing in the lower leaf), and 2 narrow 4-pane sashes at attic level. Short wing continuing to rear has altered windows and mono-pitch roof. Rear: sashed windows with 12 and 4 panes at ground floor, 12 and 12 at 1st floor, 4 and 4 at 2nd floor. INTERIOR altered at ground floor; otherwise not inspected. Item is north end of block otherwise comprised of Nos.50 to 58 (q.v.), having strong group value with Town Hall (q.v.) and Amounderness House (q.v.) opposite, and visual similarity to Nos.12 to 24 to the south (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD5407229558

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
392058
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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