ST WILFRIDS PRESBYTERY (PART) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

ST WILFRIDS PRESBYTERY (PART) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2,3, WINCKLEY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219184
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: ST WILFRIDS PRESBYTERY (PART) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: ST WILFRIDS PRESBYTERY (PART) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2,3, WINCKLEY SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219184
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1979
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: ST WILFRIDS PRESBYTERY (PART) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: ST WILFRIDS PRESBYTERY (PART) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2,3, WINCKLEY SQUARE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Statutory Address:: ST WILFRIDS PRESBYTERY (PART) AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2,3, WINCKLEY SQUARE

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County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 53796 29186

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PRESTON

SD5329SE WINCKLEY SQUARE 941-1/11/291 (North side) 27/09/79 Nos.2 AND 3 St Wilfrid's Presbytery (part) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WINCKLEY SQUARE Nos.1, 2 AND 3 St Wilfred's Presbytery)

GV II

Pair of town houses, now integrated with No.1 as presbytery. c.1840, built in gap between Nos.1 and 4; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted. Three storeys over cellars, 3+3 bays, designed as a reflected pair; ashlar basement treated as a plinth, 1st floor sill-band (continued from No.1 to the left), plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorways in the outer bays, both up 4 steps, have moulded architraves, dentilled cornices on consoles, and rectangular overlights; the windows (which are shorter at 1st floor and both lower and shorter at 2nd floor than those of No.1 to the left and No.4 to the right) have raised stone sills and gauged brick heads, and are sashed with 12, 15, and 12 panes on successive floors, those at 1st floor furnished with small segmental cast-iron balconies which have hooped railings (matching those of No.1 to the left); No.2 has a C20 flat-roofed attic dormer. Each has 2 cellar windows (those at No.2 protected by iron gratings and those at No.3 altered as ventilation louvres), both with area railings of cast-iron bars with fleur-de-lys heads, the returned ends attached to the jambs of the doorways. Various additions to rear. INTERIORS: both have extensive cellars, doglegged staircases with stick balusters and wreathed mahogany handrails, egg-and-dart cornices to the entrance halls and stairwells; and fine moulded plaster cornices in the 1st-floor front rooms with bobbin-and-reel, leaf-and-dart, and egg-and-dart decoration in successive bands.

Listing NGR: SD5378629192

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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.