Miller Arcade
MILLER ARCADE, 1-24, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292466
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Miller Arcade
- Statutory Address:
- MILLER ARCADE, 1-24, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292466
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Miller Arcade
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILLER ARCADE, 1-24, CHURCH STREET
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.
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:
- MILLER ARCADE, 1-24, CHURCH STREET
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 54073 29372
Details
PRESTON
SD5429SW CHURCH STREET 941-1/12/84 (North side) 27/09/79 Miller Arcade [shop Nos.1 to 24 (consec)]
GV II
Shopping arcade with offices over. Dated 1899 over south entry. Altered and restored. Large rectangular block on island site, containing cruciform arcades. Red brick with elaborate buff terracotta dressings, composition tile roofs with glazed vaulting to the arcades. Eclectic style with some Moorish elements. Three storeys over cellars, plus attic storey to south front and turrets over north and south entries; with cornices to the ground and 2nd floors, and brick parapets. The ground floor is a continuous arcade of alternately wide and narrow openings with rounded corners, broken in the centre of each side by 2-storey shouldered entries which have convex corners, those to the north and south breaking forwards slightly and rising to turrets, and with deeply recessed doorways which have windows over, and those to east and west wider and with a massive moulded corbel to a 2nd-floor oriel. The south front has (inter alia) canted 2-storey oriels with elaborate moulded terracotta dressings and panels, and aracades of round-headed windows to the attic; the other facades have coupled windows with similarly decorated 2-storey surrounds, and the north portion of the east side has an enriched doorway under a lintel with raised lettering "TURKISH BATHS"; and the rounded corners have curved 2-light windows, with corbelled balconies to 1st floor. INTERIOR: arcades have mostly original shop-fronts with slender turned shafts and overlights with coloured glass; elaborately decorated windows to upper floors, including groups of 3 and 4 oval oculi over the entries, with canopies over.
Listing NGR: SD5413229404
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391962
- 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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