42, WEST CLIFF
42, WEST CLIFF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279778
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 42, WEST CLIFF
- Statutory Address:
- 42, WEST CLIFF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279778
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 42, WEST CLIFF
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42, WEST CLIFF
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:
- 42, WEST CLIFF
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 53270 28858
Details
PRESTON
SD5328 WEST CLIFF 941-1/8/282 (South West side) No.42
GV II
Detached town house, now offices. Probably early 1840s; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan. Two storeys and attic, over basement, 4 bays defined by simple pilasters (the outer bays wider than the inner), with stone plinth, interrupted 1st-floor band, plaster frieze with roundels and cornice, bracketed eaves. The doorway, in the 3rd bay, has a shallow porch with panelled square pilasters which have foliated caps, and entablature with dentilled cornice and blocking course, carrying an ornamental cast-iron balcony. Above the porch is a tall window with moulded architrave. The other windows have raised sills and chamfered rectangular lintels, and altered glazing. Roof with inserted continuous dormer, and gable chimney stacks. Attached at the left end is a one-bay 3-storey addition with similar windows. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected. One of the first 4 houses built on West Cliff, and stylistically similar to Nos 54 and 56 (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD5325828845
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392179
- 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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