Description

PRESTON

SD5329SE WINCKLEY STREET 941-1/11/307 (East side) 27/09/79 No.11

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.10A AND 11 WINCKLEY STREET. Large town house, now part of college annex (with No.5 Winckley Square, q.v.). 1799 or 1800, the first house built on Winckley Square, for William Cross, its originator. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular double-depth double-fronted plan on corner site, with gable to Winckley Square. Two storeys and attic over cellar, 5 bays, symmetrical (except for service door); ashlar plinth, 1st floor band, plain frieze and moulded cornice. The doorway in the centre is round-headed, and has a large doorcase with Tuscan pilasters, a plain frieze and prominent cornice with mutules and blocking course, a panelled door in a wooden surround with narrow side lights, a rectangular overlight and a fanlight with margin panes of engraved and coloured glass (anthemions in the band round the fanlight); and immediately left of this is a small service doorway with moulded architrave and rectangular overlight. The windows are mostly 12-pane sashes (except those to left at ground floor which have altered glazing), those at 1st floor unhorned, and have raised sills and wedge lintels; and there are 2 cellar openings each side protected by grills. One ridge chimney stack. The gabled facade to Winckley Square is 5 bays, the 1st floor with a slightly raised 3-bay centre and the gable treated as a pediment, and has tall sashes without glazing bars at ground floor, 12-pane sashes at 1st floor, and 3 attic windows, that in the centre round-headed with V-shaped glazing bars in the head. INTERIOR: staircase with ornamental cast-iron balusters; otherwise, altered.

Listing NGR: SD5385929202

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