Description

PRESTON

SD5329SE WINCKLEY SQUARE 941-1/11/301 (West side) 27/09/79 No.22

GV II

Large town house, now offices, gymnasium etc. c.1850, for Philip Park (surveyor and civil engineer, partner in Park, Son, and Garlick; also Treasurer and Steward to Preston Corporation); altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth single-fronted plan, with long back extension. Three storeys over a basement, 3 bays, with ashlar basement treated as a plinth, raised rusticated quoins, moulded sill-bands to all floors (with sill-blocks below 2nd floor windows), plain frieze and prominent modillioned cornice. The doorway in the 1st bay, up 4 renewed steps protected by cast-iron railings with urn finials, has a moulded architrave with dentilled cornice on carved consoles and a 4-panel door with plain rectangular overlight. The 2 windows to the right have matching architraves and panelled aprons; the windows on the upper floors also have moulded architraves, that in the centre of the 1st floor with a segmental pediment on consoles and those flanking it with moulded cornices, and all are sashed without glazing bars. Hipped roof with corniced stone chimney to the left. Rear: 2-storey back extension with added attic, wooden canted oriels at 1st floor. INTERIOR: very large lateral open-well staircase with 2 turned balusters per tread, wreathed mahogany handrail, egg-and-dart cornices; 1st-floor front room (now partitioned) with modillioned egg-and-dart cornice, and grey marble fireplace with anthemion enrichment; cellars to whole building, approached by steps from back extension.

Listing NGR: SD5376629003

External Links

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