Description

PRESTON

SD5328 WEST CLIFF
941-1/8/280 (South West side)
27/09/79 No.38

GV II

Detached town house, now part of offices. Mid C19, altered.
Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate
roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan. Two storeys over
basement (with altered attic); a symmetrical 5-window facade,
with clasping corner pilasters and slightly raised centre,
stone plinth, interrupted string-course, plain frieze and
moulded cornice with blocking course. The centre has a large
stone porch composed of panelled square columns and pilasters,
mounted on plinths with steps between and linked by simple
balustrading, with anthemion and palmette decoration to the
caps and a dentilled entablature with egg-and-dart frieze to
the cornice, and a parapet; and a doorway with broad
shouldered architrave and panelled double doors with
overlight. The windows are 12-pane sashes, that over the door
with a moulded architrave and cornice on consoles, and the
others with raised bracketed sills and wedge lintels with
raised keystones. Roof with C20 attic storey and gable
chimneys. The left gable has a tall round-headed sashed
stair-window with radiating glazing bars, a shorter but
similar window above, and various 12-pane sashes. C20 rear
wing to this side. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD5325228882

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502493

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)