5-8, WINCKLEY STREET
5-8, WINCKLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219332
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 5-8, WINCKLEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 5-8, WINCKLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219332
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 5-8, WINCKLEY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5-8, WINCKLEY STREET
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:
- 5-8, WINCKLEY STREET
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 53819 29240
Details
PRESTON
SD5329SE WINCKLEY STREET 941-1/11/306 (East side) 27/09/79 Nos.5-8 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: WINCKLEY STREET No.7)
GV II
Row of 4 town houses, now offices. c.1800, altered. Red brick in 4+1 English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan, each house single-fronted. Three storeys over cellars, with 7 windows at 1st floor (2, 1, 1 and 3). Each house has the doorway to the left, all square-headed with moulded architraves, set-in steps, and recessed panelled doors, No.5 with an overlight immediately above the door, but those to Nos.6, 7 and 8 taller with lintels between the doors and the overlights; and immediately left of that to No.8 is a lobby doorway with plain surround. Each has a cellar window with wedge lintel (those to Nos.5 and 8 now blocked); at ground floor Nos.5, 6, and 7 have large square windows, with raised sills, rectangular lintels and altered glazing, and No.8 has 2 tall top-hung casements with glazing bars; at 1st and 2nd floors all have sashed windows with raised sills and wedge lintels, but the glazing differs (4 and 6 panes at No.5; 4 and 12 at No.6; 16 and 12 at No.7; 12 and 9 at No.8). Ridge chimneys. Above the door of No.7 is a stone plaque inscribed "Francis Joseph Thompson/ Was Born in this House/ Dec.18. 1859"; and to the right a larger bronze plaque with a bust and an inscription identifying him as the poet, giving the date as Dec.16, and ending with the lines "Ever and anon a trumpet sounds/ From the hid battlements of Eternity" (from "The Hound of Heaven"). INTERIOR: 2-room cellars (No.7 with fireplace in front and stone table in rear); stick-baluster staircases; batten-and-board doors, built-in cupboards, and reed ceilings at top floor of No.7.
Listing NGR: SD5381829249
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392203
- 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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