PRINCES BUILDINGS

PRINCES BUILDINGS, 50-58, LANCASTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279795
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:: PRINCES BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: PRINCES BUILDINGS, 50-58, LANCASTER ROAD

Princes Buildings on Lancaster Road. Terrace of five shops with dwellings over circa 1860, altered. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279795
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:: PRINCES BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: PRINCES BUILDINGS, 50-58, LANCASTER ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: PRINCES BUILDINGS, 50-58, LANCASTER ROAD

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 54076 29535

Details

SD5429NW 941-1/10/172 PRESTON LANCASTER ROAD (East side) Nos. 50-58 (Even) Princes Buildings 22/01/90

II Terrace of five shops with dwellings over (Nos. 50 and 52 now in one, and No. 56 subdivided to make two shops). c.1860, altered. Brown brick in stretcher bond, mostly stuccoed, with sandstone dressings and slate roof.

Shallow double-depth plan with back extensions. Classical style. Three storeys with cellars and attics; 1+3+1+3+3 bays (in a composition which implies an originally symmetrical design centred on No. 56 but not fully executed), with giant pilastrading to the upper floors of the three-bay units, a deep frieze and prominent dentilled cornice with blocking course which break back slightly over the one-bay units. At ground floor Nos. 50 to 56 have double-fronted shops with recessed doorways flanked by plate-glass windows with shafts which have stiff-leaf caps, and large segmental overlights (those at Nos. 50 to 54 now covered externally by modern fascia boarding; and the shop front of No. 58 remodelled). At first and second floors the six bays of Nos. 50 and 52 and the three bays of No. 56, breaking forwards slightly and stuccoed, have giant pilasters, interrupted string courses, and four-pane sashed windows (these features carried round the right-hand return of No .50); Nos. 54 and 58, each of one wide bay, have tripartite sashed windows on both floors, those at first floor with pedimented tetrastyle architraves which have large foliated consoles, and those above with shouldered stucco surrounds. Nos. 50 and 58 have small gableted dormers, Nos. 52 to 56 have low flat-roofed 12-light dormers; all have large multiple-flue chimney stacks with moulded stone cornices. The right-hand return wall of No. 50, five bays, the upper floors matching the front, has in the centre of the ground floor a doorway with banded surround, panelled door with small dentilled upstand on the lintel, and square overlight with diagonal glazing bars; to right of this, a cornice with consoles beneath the pilasters of the upper floors (suggesting that front formerly had similar feature).

Rear: two-storey extensions, mostly of shallow lean-to form; apparently unaltered windows, mostly 12-pane sashes with crown glass panes.

INTERIOR: No. 56 has a dog-legged staircase from ground floor to attic, with stick balusters and wreathed handrail; on the upper floors almost intact domestic accommodation including first-floor drawing room (now showroom) which has pilasters with entablature, deep moulded plaster ceiling cornice, and elliptical-arched alcove with moulded surround; room above this with similar alcove containing built-in cupboard, and fireplace with panelled surround; various other original fireplaces. Upper floors of other shops retain similar features in whole or part.

With No. 60 (Golden Cross Hotel) attached at north end, forms block having strong group value with Town Hall (qv) and Amounderness House (qv) opposite, and visual similarity to Nos.12 to 24 to the south.

Listing NGR: SD5408329520

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Legacy System number:: 392057
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.