Description

PRESTON

SD5328NE WINCKLEY SQUARE 941-1/13/300 (West side) 27/09/79 Nos.20 AND 21 (Formerly Listed as: WINCKLEY SQUARE (West side) No.20)

GV II

Large town house, subsequently 2 houses, then convent school, now offices. Probably early 1820s, extended and altered in 1850s; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan, with narrow addition to right-hand side. Three storeys over a basement, 5 bays (except for 1-bay addition to right, formerly No.21); symmetrical, with ashlar basement treated as a plinth, 1st-floor band, plain frieze and moulded cornice with lead-clad blocking course. The central doorway, up 5 wide steps with nosings, is elliptical-arched with an extrados of gauged brick, and has a moulded stone architrave with keystone, moulded imposts and lintel, a plain fanlight over the lintel, slender set-in Tuscan columns, and a moulded surround and 6-panel door (the top panels glazed). The windows are sashed without glazing bars, and have raised sills and wedge lintels. The basement has 2 windows each side of the steps, the area protected by replacement cast-iron railings (continued across the addition to the right, with a gate at that end). Two chimneys on front slope of roof. The addition (No.21), one narrow set-back bay to the same height, has a former doorway (altered as a window) which has an architrave of engaged columns with Egyptian caps and a dentilled cornice, and windows with moulded architraves on small consoles, both sashed without glazing bars. INTERIOR: moulded plaster cornices (egg-and-dart, etc); marble fireplace in front left room at ground floor, another at 1st floor with fluted colonettes; open-well staircase to full height, with scrolled brackets, stick balusters and wreathed mahogany handrail. History: No.21 formed by addition (and presumably internal subdivision), for Edward Garlick (partner in Garlick, Park and Sykes, surveyors and architects, inter alia of Preston Dock and Blackpool Promenade); whole building latterly part of former Holy Child Convent School for Girls.

Listing NGR: SD5378628993

External Links

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