Description

PRESTON

SD5329SE WINCKLEY SQUARE
941-1/11/303 (West side)
27/09/79 Nos.30 AND 31

GV II

Pair of town houses, No.30 latterly a club, No.31 now office.
c.1830, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone
dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house
single-fronted. Three storeys over basements, 2+2 bays, with
1st-floor sill-band, shallow frieze and prominent moulded
cornice with blocking course. Each house has the doorway to
the right, up 2 steps, with a doorcase of engaged Tuscan
columns with abaci, plain frieze and moulded cornice, plain
jambs with imposts, altered panelled door and elliptical
fanlight. To the left of the doorway each has a basement
window in a well protected by railings on a stone plinth
(those at No.30 with alternate curvilinear and stick
balusters, others altered), and at ground floor 2 sashed
windows without glazing bars; at 1st floor No.30 has 12-pane
sashes, No.31 has sashes without glazing bars; at 2nd floor
both have 9-pane sashes; all these windows are unhorned except
those at ground floor of No.31, and have raised sills and
wedge lintels. ridge chimneys at the jumnctions. Rear and
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD5375829118

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568974

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)