WATERSTONES BOOKSHOP

WATERSTONES BOOKSHOP, 6, FISHERGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279821
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: WATERSTONES BOOKSHOP
Statutory Address:: WATERSTONES BOOKSHOP, 6, FISHERGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279821
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: WATERSTONES BOOKSHOP
Statutory Address 1:: WATERSTONES BOOKSHOP, 6, FISHERGATE

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:: WATERSTONES BOOKSHOP, 6, FISHERGATE

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 54021 29316

Details

PRESTON

SD5429SW FISHERGATE 941-1/12/100 (South side) No.6 Waterstone's Bookshop

GV II

Formerly known as: Booth's grocery shop FISHERGATE. Grocery shop, now bookshop. 1859, upper floors re-faced 1915, altered internally. Brick, with facade of sandstone ashlar and white faience, roof not visible but probably slate. Deep rectangular plan on corner site, with canted corner. Three storeys, 2:3:2 windows to Fishergate, 1 at the corner, 2:2:2 to Glovers Court. The ground floor, of sandstone, is a continuous arcade of round-headed arches on columns with carved foliated caps (7 bays to Fishergate, 1 at the corner between canted piers with shafts, and 6 bays to Glovers Court), each arch having a 2-centred extrados with mask keystone, and gold-coloured mosaic spandrels with brackets to a pierced parapet carried round the whole. The faienced upper floors have thin canted pilasters, a string-course over each floor, a deep frieze with swags, an enriched modillioned cornice, and arcaded windows: those at 1st floor arched like those below, and those at 2nd floor half the size and twice as many in each bay. Hipped roof. Continuation to rear, in red brick, 8 bays, with pilasters, Lombard frieze, moulded cornice, mostly round-headed winndows (blocked at ground floor), and bridge across street. INTERIOR altered.

Listing NGR: SD5403329257

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Legacy System number:: 391980
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.