5, WINCKLEY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279780
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: 5, WINCKLEY SQUARE
Statutory Address:: 5, WINCKLEY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279780
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: 5, WINCKLEY SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:: 5, 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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Location

Statutory Address:: 5, 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 53850 29200

Details

PRESTON

SD5329SE WINCKLEY SQUARE 941-1/11/293 (North East side) 27/09/79 No.5

GV II

Large town house, now part of annex to college of further education (with No.11 Winckley Street, q.v.). 1854-5, for Thomas Miller; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone ashlar dressings and slate roof. Double-pile plan, double-fronted, plus a short projecting wing at the right-hand corner. Italian palazzo style. Three storeys over basement, a symmetrical 5-window main range, with ashlar plinth, sill-bands to all floors, string-course with Vitruvian scroll ornament over ground floor, and frieze with rosettes between moulded brackets to a prominent cornice. The central entrance has a large and elaborate stone porch including blocked semi-columns with composite capitals, prominent cornice and pierced parapet, a round-headed archway with impost cartouches monogrammed "TM" and a keystone cartouche, internal steps and barrel-vaulted ceiling, and a large round-headed inner doorway with side lights and fanlight (all glazing either engraved or coloured). The windows are sashed without glazing bars and have flat-arched heads; the basement has large rectangular openings with ornamental cast-iron grills, the areas each side of the porch surrounded by plinths of former railings. Hipped roof, ridge chimneys. The wing to the right is slightly lower, has a plinth and dentilled cornice, and a tripartite sashed window a ground floor, but is otherwise similar. East side wall has 2 tripartite stair-windows, the upper Venetian. Rear has various sashed windows, and some additions. INTERIOR: entrance lobby with steps, coffered barrel-vaulted ceiling, shell tympani over inner and outer doors; lateral hallway with coloured tile floor, large open-well stone staircase with decorated cast-iron balusters, and stair-windows with coloured glass, the lower including a shield dated "MDCCCLV", and upper with similar glazing including monogram "TM". History: Thomas Miller was proprietor of Horrocks Miller & Co, the largest cotton firm in Preston.

Listing NGR: SD5385929202

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Legacy System number:: 392190
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.