1 Lune Street
1, LUNE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218420
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 1 Lune Street
- Statutory Address:
- 1, LUNE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218420
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 1 Lune Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, LUNE 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.
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:
- 1, LUNE 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 53753 29295
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/04/2014
SD5329SE
941-1/11/195
PRESTON
LUNE STREET (West side)
No.1
(Formerly listed as Shelley Assurance Building)
27/09/79
II
Former Friendly Society office. Late C19 rebuilding for society established 1831; slightly altered late C20. Polished dark brown granite at ground floor, red brick with sandstone dressings above; slate roof. Shallow rectangular plan on corner site, with chamfered corner. Baroque style. Three storeys plus corner turret, with a 3-window facade to Lune Street and 1-window facade to Fishergate; with stone bands, frieze, modillioned cornice and panelled and balustraded parapet. The ground floor, of channelled rusticated polished granite, has wide segmental-arched windows with triple keystones, that in the centre wider (and the sills recently lowered, but this alteration not now detectable), and in the chamfered corner a doorway with moulded architrave including triple keystone, under a prominent open segmental pediment. The 1st floor has a tripartite window in the centre with architrave including a triple keystone and open segmental pediment, and a single-light windows on each side with similar architrave (except the pediment); the 2nd floor has single-light windows with simpler architraves; and the Fishergate facade windows like those of the centre. The canted corner has an elaborately enriched corbel carrying a tall 5-sided oriel with narrow windows at 2nd floor, finished above the cornice as an octagonal turret with small round-headed keyed windows, a prominent bracketed cornice, and a domed copper cap with finial. Good original INTERIOR.
Listing NGR: SD5375429292
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392082
- 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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