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Latitude: 53.7587 / 53°45'31"N
Longitude: -2.6981 / 2°41'53"W
OS Eastings: 354073
OS Northings: 429372
OS Grid: SD540293
Mapcode National: GBR TB4.81
Mapcode Global: WH85M.JSFD
Plus Code: 9C5VQ852+FQ
Entry Name: Miller Arcade
Listing Date: 27 September 1979
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1292466
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391962
ID on this website: 101292466
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
Tagged with: Arcade
PRESTON
SD5429SW CHURCH STREET
941-1/12/84 (North side)
27/09/79 Miller Arcade [shop Nos.1 to 24
(consec)]
GV II
Shopping arcade with offices over. Dated 1899 over south
entry. Altered and restored. Large rectangular block on island
site, containing cruciform arcades. Red brick with elaborate
buff terracotta dressings, composition tile roofs with glazed
vaulting to the arcades. Eclectic style with some Moorish
elements. Three storeys over cellars, plus attic storey to
south front and turrets over north and south entries; with
cornices to the ground and 2nd floors, and brick parapets. The
ground floor is a continuous arcade of alternately wide and
narrow openings with rounded corners, broken in the centre of
each side by 2-storey shouldered entries which have convex
corners, those to the north and south breaking forwards
slightly and rising to turrets, and with deeply recessed
doorways which have windows over, and those to east and west
wider and with a massive moulded corbel to a 2nd-floor oriel.
The south front has (inter alia) canted 2-storey oriels with
elaborate moulded terracotta dressings and panels, and
aracades of round-headed windows to the attic; the other
facades have coupled windows with similarly decorated 2-storey
surrounds, and the north portion of the east side has an
enriched doorway under a lintel with raised lettering "TURKISH
BATHS"; and the rounded corners have curved 2-light windows,
with corbelled balconies to 1st floor.
INTERIOR: arcades have mostly original shop-fronts with
slender turned shafts and overlights with coloured glass;
elaborately decorated windows to upper floors, including
groups of 3 and 4 oval oculi over the entries, with canopies
over.
Listing NGR: SD5413229404
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