33,34, MARKET PLACE

33,34, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218438
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
33,34, MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address:
33,34, MARKET PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218438
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
33,34, MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address 1:
33,34, MARKET PLACE

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:
33,34, MARKET PLACE

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 53969 29415

Details

PRESTON

SD5329SE MARKET PLACE 941-1/11/68 (West side) 16/11/88 Nos.33 AND 34

GV II

Two shops, originally a house (probably with shops towards Market Place). Late C16/early C17, later C17 rear wing to No.34, substantially altered in C19 and C20. Timber-framed, rendered and part weather-boarded, with Welsh slate roofs. Hall and crosswing plan on very small scale, No.33 to left being the crosswing. One and a half storeys, 2 bays. No.33 is gabled, with barge-boarded projected verges, and has a C19 shop front with recessed doorway to left and 2-tier window to right, the upper half with slender turned shafts and delicate arched glazing bars and scrolls, the whole crossed by a fascia board; and, above this, a window of 3 small square lights with coloured leaded glazing. The facade of No.34 is late C20. INTERIOR: No.33 (the wing) has 2 full bays of framing and part of a 3rd survive: one roof truss with ovolo-moulded tie-beam and principals morticed and pegged at the apex, front wall framing with principals and yoke, and side walls with mortices in the wall-plate for studs and braces. No.34 has a king-post roof truss with a large cambered tie-beam, queen struts, and square-set ridge piece (the upper parts of this visible from No.33); another ovolo-moulded beam; and a rear wing with parts of a large principal-rafter roof truss and purlins of large scantling.

Listing NGR: SD5396829414

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
392085
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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