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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513819

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990