Listing Text

PRESTON

SD5428NW BANK PARADE
941-1/14/25 (North side)
27/09/79 No.11
(Formerly Listed as:
BANK PARADE
Nos.1-14 (Consecutive))

GV II

Town house. c.1840; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with
sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth
single-fronted plan with a back extension. Three storeys over
basement, 2 bays; stone plinth, moulded 1st floor sill-band,
plain frieze and moulded cornice. The ground floor has the
doorway to the left (up 3 steps), with a doorcase of
semi-columns with stiff-leaf caps, square abaci, and
entablature with wreaths, dentilled cornice and blocking
course with shallow triangular upstand, a hollow-moulded
surround and panelled door with plain overlight; a lobby
doorway to the right with chamfered stone surround and shallow
cornice; and in the centre a canted bay window which has a
cellar opening in the plinth, a raised sill, moulded cornice
with blocking course, and altered glazing; the windows on the
upper floors, which are not vertically aligned with openings
on the ground floor, all have altered glazing, those at 1st
floor with apparently lowered sills (breaking the sill-band
but matching it) and wedge lintels, and those above, which are
square, with raised sills. Gable chimneys. Rear and INTERIOR
not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD5419728808