Description

PRESTON

SD5329SE WINCKLEY SQUARE 941-1/11/293 (North East side) 27/09/79 No.5

GV II

Large town house, now part of annex to college of further education (with No.11 Winckley Street, q.v.). 1854-5, for Thomas Miller; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone ashlar dressings and slate roof. Double-pile plan, double-fronted, plus a short projecting wing at the right-hand corner. Italian palazzo style. Three storeys over basement, a symmetrical 5-window main range, with ashlar plinth, sill-bands to all floors, string-course with Vitruvian scroll ornament over ground floor, and frieze with rosettes between moulded brackets to a prominent cornice. The central entrance has a large and elaborate stone porch including blocked semi-columns with composite capitals, prominent cornice and pierced parapet, a round-headed archway with impost cartouches monogrammed "TM" and a keystone cartouche, internal steps and barrel-vaulted ceiling, and a large round-headed inner doorway with side lights and fanlight (all glazing either engraved or coloured). The windows are sashed without glazing bars and have flat-arched heads; the basement has large rectangular openings with ornamental cast-iron grills, the areas each side of the porch surrounded by plinths of former railings. Hipped roof, ridge chimneys. The wing to the right is slightly lower, has a plinth and dentilled cornice, and a tripartite sashed window a ground floor, but is otherwise similar. East side wall has 2 tripartite stair-windows, the upper Venetian. Rear has various sashed windows, and some additions. INTERIOR: entrance lobby with steps, coffered barrel-vaulted ceiling, shell tympani over inner and outer doors; lateral hallway with coloured tile floor, large open-well stone staircase with decorated cast-iron balusters, and stair-windows with coloured glass, the lower including a shield dated "MDCCCLV", and upper with similar glazing including monogram "TM". History: Thomas Miller was proprietor of Horrocks Miller & Co, the largest cotton firm in Preston.

Listing NGR: SD5385929202

External Links

• Wikidata Q26568972

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)