8, EAST CLIFF

8, EAST CLIFF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292411
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1979
List Entry Name:
8, EAST CLIFF
Statutory Address:
8, EAST CLIFF
8 East Cliff. A detached town house, circa 1835. Previously used as an education centre and offices.
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Date:
2002-07-03
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292411
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1979
List Entry Name:
8, EAST CLIFF
Statutory Address 1:
8, EAST CLIFF

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
8, EAST CLIFF

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 53615 28759

Details

PRESTON

SD5328NE EAST CLIFF 941-1/13/97 (South side) 27/09/79 No.8

GV II

Detached town house, now education centre and offices. c.1835, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan. Two storeys over basement, a symmetrical 3-window facade, with plinth, 1st-floor band and prominent projecting eaves. The doorway has a doorcase with coupled pilasters and entablature with dentilled cornice, and a panelled door and overlight with vertical glazing bars. The windows are all 16-pane sashes with raised sills and flat-arched heads. Roof with projected verges and gable chimneys. Side walls have inter alia roundel windows in the gables. The south front has 2 segmental 3-window bows (terminating below the eaves), with a plain frieze over each floor, and sashed windows on each floor. INTERIOR has dog-legged staircase with stick balusters and mahogany handrail with wreathed curtail. Added 2-storey wing on east side.

Listing NGR: SD5361528759

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
391977
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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