Description

PRESTON

SD5429SW LANCASTER ROAD 941-1/12/169 (East side) 27/09/79 Nos.16 AND 18

GV II

Post office, now 2 shops with offices over. 1854; altered. Painted ashlar facade to brick carcase, slate roof. Narrow rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Classical style. A pedimented 3-storey 3-bay facade (plus concealed attic), with modillioned cornice to ground floor, giant Composite pilastrade to upper floors, moulded frieze, emphatic modillioned cornice, and moulded pediment. The ground floor has 2 altered shop fronts with elaborate coupled consoles rising from the fascia to the cornice; the upper floors have a string-course to each bay, windows with altered glazing at 1st floor and 4-pane sashes above. Corniced side-chimneys; skylights. History: post office 1854-70. Forms part of block including Nos 10, 12 and 14 to the right (to which it appears as a wing), and Nos 20 and 22, and No.24 to left (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD5411929414

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)