Former bank and bank manager's residence
39 and 40, Fishergate
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292389
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Former bank and bank manager's residence
- Statutory Address:
- 39 and 40, Fishergate
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292389
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Former bank and bank manager's residence
- Statutory Address 1:
- 39 and 40, Fishergate
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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:
- 39 and 40, 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 53779 29265
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 April 2025 to update the Name and Address, amend details in the description and reformat the text to current standards
SD5329SE
941-1/11/102
PRESTON
FISHERGATE (South side)
Nos. 39 and 40
(Formerly listed Nos. 39 AND 40 Midland Bank)
27/09/79
II
Bank. 1856-7, by J.H.Park, for the Preston Banking Company. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Deep rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Italian palazzo style. Three storeys and five bays, symmetrical, with rusticated vermiculated quoins, plinth, cornice over ground floor with four bulldog masks, sill-band to second floor, enriched frieze with dentils over, and prominent mutule cornice with 18 masks (carried round the right-hand corner). The ground floor, treated as a five-bay arcade of round-headed arches with vermiculated quoined surrounds and mask keystones, and with festoons between the arches (pendent from the bulldog masks on the cornice), has doorways with panelled doors in the outer bays, and windows with altered glazing in the other bays (all now with modern cashpoints and safes in the aprons). The first floor has round-headed casement windows with pedimented Corinthian architraves (the aprons now concealed by a modern signboard lettered MIDLAND BANK); and the second floor has short segmental-headed casements with shoudered architraves. Chimney at right-hand gable with prominent enriched cornice.
INTERIOR: fine banking hall with Corinthian columns and pilasters, coffered ceiling with dentil frieze, egg-and-dart, foliated modillions; three-bay side-screens of round-headed arches.
Listing NGR: SD5317329962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391982
- 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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