36, CANNON STREET

36, CANNON STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292551
Date first listed:
20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:
36, CANNON STREET
Statutory Address:
36, CANNON STREET
Number 36 Cannon Street. Town house, now shops and offices. Circa 1820, only slightly altered.
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Date:
2005-05-29
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292551
Date first listed:
20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:
36, CANNON STREET
Statutory Address 1:
36, CANNON 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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
36, CANNON 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 53974 29212

Details

PRESTON

SD5329SE CANNON STREET 941-1/11/49 (West side) No.36

II

Town house, now shops and offices (but top floor unoccupied at time of survey, 1989). c.1820, only slightly altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth single-fronted plan. Three storeys over cellar, 2 bays; round-headed doorway to the left, with doorcase of engaged Tuscan columns with square abaci, plain frieze and moulded cornice, panelled door and fanlight with radiating glazing bars; to the right, the head of an altered cellar window, and a large 16-pane sash at ground floor (lower leaf now lacking glazing bars); two 16-pane sashes on each upper floor, all with raised sills and wedge lintels; moulded gutter cornice. Chimney at junction with No.37 to the right. Rear: full-height stair window, with 20 large panes and a sashed opening at the bottom. INTERIOR: entrance lobby with glazed inner door and side windows which have coloured margin panes; moulded plaster cornice with rosettes; dog-legged staircase with stick balusters; ceilings of plaster on lath and reed.

Listing NGR: SD5397129212

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
391927
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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