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Waterstones Bookshop

A Grade II Listed Building in Preston, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7582 / 53°45'29"N

Longitude: -2.6989 / 2°41'55"W

OS Eastings: 354021

OS Northings: 429317

OS Grid: SD540293

Mapcode National: GBR TB0.NX

Mapcode Global: WH85M.JS1S

Plus Code: 9C5VQ852+7F

Entry Name: Waterstones Bookshop

Listing Date: 20 December 1991

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1279821

English Heritage Legacy ID: 391980

ID on this website: 101279821

Location: Preston, Lancashire, PR1

County: Lancashire

District: Preston

Electoral Ward/Division: Town Centre

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Preston

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Preston St John and St George the Martyr

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description



PRESTON

SD5429SW FISHERGATE
941-1/12/100 (South side)
No.6
Waterstone's Bookshop

GV II

Formerly known as: Booth's grocery shop FISHERGATE.
Grocery shop, now bookshop. 1859, upper floors re-faced 1915,
altered internally. Brick, with facade of sandstone ashlar and
white faience, roof not visible but probably slate. Deep
rectangular plan on corner site, with canted corner. Three
storeys, 2:3:2 windows to Fishergate, 1 at the corner, 2:2:2
to Glovers Court. The ground floor, of sandstone, is a
continuous arcade of round-headed arches on columns with
carved foliated caps (7 bays to Fishergate, 1 at the corner
between canted piers with shafts, and 6 bays to Glovers
Court), each arch having a 2-centred extrados with mask
keystone, and gold-coloured mosaic spandrels with brackets to
a pierced parapet carried round the whole. The faienced upper
floors have thin canted pilasters, a string-course over each
floor, a deep frieze with swags, an enriched modillioned
cornice, and arcaded windows: those at 1st floor arched like
those below, and those at 2nd floor half the size and twice as
many in each bay. Hipped roof. Continuation to rear, in red
brick, 8 bays, with pilasters, Lombard frieze, moulded
cornice, mostly round-headed winndows (blocked at ground
floor), and bridge across street. INTERIOR altered.


Listing NGR: SD5403329257

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