Description

PRESTON

SD5428NW BANK PARADE
941-1/14/23 (North side)
27/09/79 No.9
(Formerly Listed as:
BANK PARADE
Nos.1-14 (Consecutive))

GV II

Town house, now flats. c.1830; altered. Red brick in Flemish
bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth
double-fronted plan with a back extension. Three storeys over
basement, 3 bays, symmetrical, the centre breaking forwards
slightly; stone plinth, 1st floor sill-band, plain frieze and
moulded cornice. The centre has a fine round-headed doorway
with brick surround in 3 orders, a set-in doorcase of engaged
Ionic columns with entablature and cornice, a glazed and
panelled door and fanlight with graceful pendant tracery; and
at 1st floor above the doorway French windows with glazing
bars and margin panes, opening onto a large rectangular
cast-iron balcony with geometrical-pattern railings. The
flanking bays have canted bay windows at ground floor with
cornices and blocking courses, that to the right with 4-pane
sashed glazing but the other with altered glazing, and 12-pane
sashes at 1st floor; the 3 windows at 2nd floor have altered
glazing, and all the windows on the upper floors have wedge
lintels. INTERIOR: stairwell with some moulded plaster;
otherwise, not inspected. HISTORY: first house built on Bank
Parade, the only one shown on Myres' map of 1836.

Listing NGR: SD5422028819

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502401

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)