Charnley House
CHARNLEY HOUSE, 13, WINCKLEY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279781
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Charnley House
- Statutory Address:
- CHARNLEY HOUSE, 13, WINCKLEY SQUARE
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- Reference:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279781
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Charnley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARNLEY HOUSE, 13, 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:
- CHARNLEY HOUSE, 13, 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 53885 29003
Details
PRESTON
SD5329SE WINCKLEY SQUARE 941-1/11/297 (South side) 27/09/79 No.13 Charnley House
GV II
Large town house, now office. 1844, for Paul Catterall (cotton spinner); altered. Red brick in Flemish bond (sides and rear of brown brick in 4+1 English garden wall bond), with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan with rear service wing at right-angles. Two storeys with basement and attic, 5 bays, symmetrical, the centre breaking forwards slightly, with ashlar basement treated as a plinth, corner pilasters, 1st-floor band, plain frieze and moulded cornice with blocking course. The centre has a porch with 2 Ionic columns and pilasters, plain entablature (now with attached lettering), and moulded cornice with blocking course, 3 internal steps with nosings, and a wide elliptical-headed doorway which has a wooden doorcase with side-lights of patterned coloured glass and a fanlight with radiating lead tracery. The windows are sashed without glazing bars, and have raised sills and wedge lintels. Basement areas filled in but enclosed by plinths of former railings. Both gable walls have 12-pane sashes on 3 levels, and the right-hand wall has a stair-window next to the projecting service wing. The rear has (inter alia) a round-headed stair-window with radiating glazing bars and coloured margin panes. INTERIOR: entrance lobby with glazed screen including side windows with coloured margin panes and elliptical fanlight with radiating glazing bars; central hallway with diamond-pattern black and white marble paving; dog-legged staircase with decorated curvilinear cast-iron balusters andwreathed mahogany handrail; former kitchen in parallel rear wing, servants' stairs next to it.
Listing NGR: SD5387929004
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392194
- 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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