The Unicorn Hotel
THE UNICORN HOTEL, 378, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218706
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- The Unicorn Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE UNICORN HOTEL, 378, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218706
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- The Unicorn Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE UNICORN HOTEL, 378, NORTH 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.
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:
- THE UNICORN HOTEL, 378, NORTH 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 53668 30456
Details
PRESTON
SD53SW NORTH ROAD 941-1/1/218 (East side) No.378 The Unicorn Hotel
GV II
Public house. Earlier C19, altered. Sandstone ashlar facade with watershot coursed sandstone sides and rear, slate roof. L-plan formed by rectagular main block with long rear wing to left. Jacobean style. Two storeys over basements, a symmetrical 3-window facade with a central gable, central doorway in C17 style with hoodmould, canted bay windows at ground floor, cross-windows at 1st floor with 4-pane glazing in each light and double-hung sashes in one side only. Roof with large front gable and projecting verges, all with apex finials; axial chimneys on ridge each side of centre. Left side wall has blocked doorway at ground floor, and sashed window above this with joinery in cross-window form; wing continued to rear has doorway to basement, 2 smilar windows at ground floor and 3 above (plus a small inserted window at ground floor). Right-hand side wall has modern brick addition at ground floor (toilets). Rear: wing includes open-fronted double cart-house with central iron column, and former stable at rear end, with manger (linked to remains of former shippon forming rear end of cobbled yard). INTERIOR: ground floor mostly altered but includes small lobby with large iron hooks in ceiling; large vaulted basements throughout, with stone keeping table, and butcher's rails suspended from ceiling; original batten doors with strap hinges, including external door to yard, with ventilation grill. History: associated with former cattle market held on adjoining site in earlier C19.
Listing NGR: SD5366830456
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392106
- 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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