Description

PRESTON

SD5329SE WINCKLEY SQUARE 941-1/11/297 (South side) 27/09/79 No.13 Charnley House

GV II

Large town house, now office. 1844, for Paul Catterall (cotton spinner); altered. Red brick in Flemish bond (sides and rear of brown brick in 4+1 English garden wall bond), with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan with rear service wing at right-angles. Two storeys with basement and attic, 5 bays, symmetrical, the centre breaking forwards slightly, with ashlar basement treated as a plinth, corner pilasters, 1st-floor band, plain frieze and moulded cornice with blocking course. The centre has a porch with 2 Ionic columns and pilasters, plain entablature (now with attached lettering), and moulded cornice with blocking course, 3 internal steps with nosings, and a wide elliptical-headed doorway which has a wooden doorcase with side-lights of patterned coloured glass and a fanlight with radiating lead tracery. The windows are sashed without glazing bars, and have raised sills and wedge lintels. Basement areas filled in but enclosed by plinths of former railings. Both gable walls have 12-pane sashes on 3 levels, and the right-hand wall has a stair-window next to the projecting service wing. The rear has (inter alia) a round-headed stair-window with radiating glazing bars and coloured margin panes. INTERIOR: entrance lobby with glazed screen including side windows with coloured margin panes and elliptical fanlight with radiating glazing bars; central hallway with diamond-pattern black and white marble paving; dog-legged staircase with decorated curvilinear cast-iron balusters andwreathed mahogany handrail; former kitchen in parallel rear wing, servants' stairs next to it.

Listing NGR: SD5387929004

External Links

• Wikidata Q26568973

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