6, WINCKLEY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291566
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: 6, WINCKLEY SQUARE
Statutory Address:: 6, WINCKLEY SQUARE

Number 6 Winckley Square. Large town house, now office. Built circa 1805, for John Gorst. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291566
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: 6, WINCKLEY SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:: 6, 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:: 6, 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 53873 29187

Details

SD5329SE 941-1/11/294

PRESTON WINCKLEY SQUARE (East side) No.6

12/06/50

GV II Large town house, now office. c.1805, for John Gorst; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular double-depth double-fronted plan, with a wing attached to the rear right-hand corner. Three storeys over basement, 5 bays, symmetrical, with a 1st-floor band, plain frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course; a large round-headed doorway in the centre (approached by 3 steps with nosings) with a plain brick surround, containing a set-in stone doorcase with Tuscan semi-columns distyle in antis and a plain frieze and moulded cornice, and a large fanlight with radiating glazing bars; sashed windows without glazing bars at ground floor, and unhorned 12-pane sashes at 1st floor, 6-pane sashes at 2nd floor. Shallow-pitched hipped roof now without chimneys; 2 receding ridges behind. The right-hand return wall has various segmental-headed windows towards the rear, mostly sashed, and attached to the rear corner a 2-storey wing which has (inter alia) an elliptical-headed wagon archway through to the rear, with sandstone jambs. Rear: 2 gables, with unusual bifurcated external chimneys, various small sashed windows and the top of a round-headed stair window with radiating glazing bars, but mostly covered by large modern addition. INTERIOR: ground right-hand front room with elaborate plaster frieze, cornice and ceiling decoration (scrolled leaves, acanthus, etc); lateral open-well staircase with 2 fluted stick balusters per tread and wreathed mahogany handrail, 2 lower stages of stair window with glazing bars now covered by external addition; otherwise altered. Listing NGR: SD5387329187

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Legacy System number:: 392191
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.