29,30,31, CHURCH STREET
29,30,31, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279816
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 29,30,31, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 29,30,31, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279816
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 29,30,31, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 29,30,31, CHURCH 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:
- 29,30,31, CHURCH 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 54252 29435
Details
PRESTON
SD5429SW CHURCH STREET 941-1/12/72 (North side) Nos.29, 30 AND 31
GV II
Two town houses, now 3 shops with workrooms over. Probably mid C18,but much altered in C19 and C20. Brick, Nos.30 and 31 with scored stucco above ground floor, sandstone dressings, slate roof. Double-depth plan with long back extensions. Three storeys, 4+4 windows; No.29 rebuilt (probably in early C20), with shop-front at ground floor and sashed windows above; Nos.30 and 31 have shop-fronts at ground floor, windows at 1st floor sashed without glazing bars but with exposed boxes, and fixed windows at 2nd floor. Chimneys at gable-ends in front of ridge. Right-hand return wall (to Church Row), in English garden wall bond, has a blocked doorway with wooden doorcase including fluted pilasters and dentilled cornice, a very large modern advertisement board at 1st floor, and various C19 sashed windows (including small square 6-pane sash to attic), and a 2-window back extension continued to rear with a doorway and similar windows, and 2 ridge chimney stacks. The principal features of interest are on the upper floors of the INTERIOR: No.29 has the top flights of a fine C18 open-well staircase, with open string, carved brackets, 3 turned balusters per tread, ramped and moulded handrail, and fielded panel dado; Nos.30 and 31 have a former drawing room at 1st floor with fielded panelling (but now partitioned), remains of original staircases, and a pegged collar-truss roof. The item is one of only two 3 examples of C18 domestic interiors known to survive in the town (others are 11 Friargate, q.v., and 27 Church Street, which has only the upper flights of a staircase from which 2 out of every 3 balusters have been removed).
Listing NGR: SD5425229448
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391950
- 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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