4 and Attached Railings
4 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 4, WINCKLEY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219194
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 4 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- 4 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 4, WINCKLEY SQUARE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219194
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 4 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 4, WINCKLEY SQUARE
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:
- 4 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 4, WINCKLEY SQUARE
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 53810 29190
Details
PRESTON
SD5329SE WINCKLEY SQUARE 941-1/11/292 (North side) 27/09/79 No.4 and attached railings
GV II
Large town house, now offices. c.1800, for Nicholas Grimshaw; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan. Three storeys over basement, 5 bays, symmetrical; ashlar basement treated as a plinth, 1st floor sill-band, and prominent moulded cornice. The central doorway, up 3 steps with nosings, has a pedimented doorcase with slender engaged Tuscan columns which have fluted caps, square abaci, and a frieze with 5 blocks of fluting; plain jambs with small imposts, a semi-circular fanlight, and a panelled door. The ground and 1st floors have 4-pane sashed windows, the 2nd floor has unhorned 9-pane sashes, all with raised sills and wedge lintels. Basement areas both sides of door protected by iron railings with dogbars, an urn finial to the left of the steps but otherwise mostly with knob finials (including the dog-bars). Stone gable copings, chimneys at the side walls. The right-hand return wall (to Winckley Street) has (inter alia) a doorway and 2 windows at ground floor with moulded achitraves and an attic window with radiating glazing bars. Rear: full-height round-headed stair-window with radiating glazing bars. INTERIOR: open-well staircase with stick balusters and wreathed mahogany handrail. History: second house built in Winckley Square, after No.11 Winckley Street (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD5381029190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392189
- 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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