Description

PRESTON

SD5329 STANLEY TERRACE 941-1/6/271 (East side) 27/09/79 Nos.1-4 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: STANLEY TERRACE (North side) Nos.1-8 (Consecutive))

GV II

Includes: Nos.86 AND 87 FISHERGATE HILL. (No.86 being the returned end of the terrace). Terrace of 5 town houses, No.2 and Nos 86 and 87 Fishergate Hill now hotels. c.1820, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house on Stanley Terrace single-fronted and Nos 86 and 87 Fishergate Hill double-fronted to that street; with long back extensions. Three storeys over cellars, with 2+2+2+2+1 windows to Stanley Terrace; plain frieze, moulded cornice and low blocking course carried round. Each house has a round-headed doorway to the right, with a doorcase of engaged Tuscan columns, entablature and cornice; one window at ground floor and 2 on each floor above, those at ground and 1st floors tall and with raised sills and wedge lintels, and those at 2nd floor square under the frieze, with raised sills, and all these windows with altered glazing. Cellar windows also with wedge lintels, and protected by gratings. Ridge chimney stacks. No.86 Fishergate Hill, the right-hand return, has a symmetrical 3-window facade in matching style. Continued to the right of this is No.87 Fishergate Hill, an early addition (now incorporated with No.86), also 3 storeys and 3 windows and in similar style but with a simple round-headed doorway, and additions to the front of the ground floor and a large iron fire-escape in the centre.

Listing NGR: SD5314129060

External Links

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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