Description

PRESTON

SD5429SW CHURCH STREET
941-1/12/69 (North side)
27/09/79 No.11

GV II

Includes: Nos.2 AND 4 LANCASTER ROAD.
Shops with dwellings over. c.1850-60, altered. Red brick in
Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings (roof concealed but
probably slate). Rectangular plan on corner site. Mostly 3
storeys, but Nos 2 and 4 Lancaster Road 4 storeys to same
height; a symmetrical 3-window facade to Church Street, with
mooulded cornice and parapet carried round. Ground floor
occupied by C19 shop front (carried round), with deep fascia
carrying simple railings, and scrolled wrought-iron cresting
to the corner, a deep band over this; tall 15-pane sashed
windows at 1st floor, that in the centre with moulded
architrave and cornice, shorter sashes at 2nd floor with
glazing bars only in the upper leaves. Hipped roof. Left
return to Lancaster Road has 2 similar windows on each floor,
also with flat-arched heads; and Nos 2 and 4 Lancaster Road
have C20 shops at ground floor, 3 sashed windows at 1st and
2nd floors and 2 smaller sashes at 3rd floor, all with
flat-arched heads. INTERIORS not inspected. Forms group with
Red Lion and Ellesmere Chambers (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD5413029376

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569006

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide