20,21, WINCKLEY SQUARE
20,21, WINCKLEY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219266
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 20,21, WINCKLEY SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 20,21, WINCKLEY SQUARE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219266
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 20,21, WINCKLEY SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20,21, 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:
- 20,21, 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 53791 28992
Details
PRESTON
SD5328NE WINCKLEY SQUARE 941-1/13/300 (West side) 27/09/79 Nos.20 AND 21 (Formerly Listed as: WINCKLEY SQUARE (West side) No.20)
GV II
Large town house, subsequently 2 houses, then convent school, now offices. Probably early 1820s, extended and altered in 1850s; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan, with narrow addition to right-hand side. Three storeys over a basement, 5 bays (except for 1-bay addition to right, formerly No.21); symmetrical, with ashlar basement treated as a plinth, 1st-floor band, plain frieze and moulded cornice with lead-clad blocking course. The central doorway, up 5 wide steps with nosings, is elliptical-arched with an extrados of gauged brick, and has a moulded stone architrave with keystone, moulded imposts and lintel, a plain fanlight over the lintel, slender set-in Tuscan columns, and a moulded surround and 6-panel door (the top panels glazed). The windows are sashed without glazing bars, and have raised sills and wedge lintels. The basement has 2 windows each side of the steps, the area protected by replacement cast-iron railings (continued across the addition to the right, with a gate at that end). Two chimneys on front slope of roof. The addition (No.21), one narrow set-back bay to the same height, has a former doorway (altered as a window) which has an architrave of engaged columns with Egyptian caps and a dentilled cornice, and windows with moulded architraves on small consoles, both sashed without glazing bars. INTERIOR: moulded plaster cornices (egg-and-dart, etc); marble fireplace in front left room at ground floor, another at 1st floor with fluted colonettes; open-well staircase to full height, with scrolled brackets, stick balusters and wreathed mahogany handrail. History: No.21 formed by addition (and presumably internal subdivision), for Edward Garlick (partner in Garlick, Park and Sykes, surveyors and architects, inter alia of Preston Dock and Blackpool Promenade); whole building latterly part of former Holy Child Convent School for Girls.
Listing NGR: SD5378628993
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392197
- 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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