Former bank and bank manager's residence

39 and 40, Fishergate

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292389
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: Former bank and bank manager's residence
Statutory Address:: 39 and 40, Fishergate

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292389
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: Former bank and bank manager's residence
Statutory Address 1:: 39 and 40, 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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 391982
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.