Description

PRESTON

SD5428NW BANK PARADE
941-1/14/26 (North side)
27/09/79 Nos.12, 13 AND 14
(Formerly Listed as:
BANK PARADE
Nos.1-14 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 3 town houses. Mid to later C19; altered. Sandstone
ashlar, slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house
single-fronted and with a back extension. Two storeys with
cellars and attics, each house 2 bays; plinth, 1st-floor
sill-band, bracketed cornice with low blocking course; raised
rusticated quoins at left and right ends. Nos.12 and 13 built
as a reflected pair with doorways flanking a shared
through-lobby, No.14 with doorway in 2nd bay. The doorways, up
3 steps, have moulded architraves with cornices on consoles,
recessed doors (panelled at Nos.12 and 14, altered at No.13)
with rectangular overlights (that at No.12 with margin panes);
the lobby doorway between Nos.12 and 13 has a panelled lintel
with a cornice, and an unglazed overlight with ornamental iron
openwork. At ground floor each house has a rectangular bay
window composed of square columns which have capitals with
anthemion enrichment, entablature with plain frieze and
dentilled cornice, panelled aprons to the lights (2 lights at
Nos.12 and 13, 3 lights at No.14), and sashes without glazing
bars (except No.13 which has altered glazing). All windows at
1st floor are sashed without glazing bars and have moulded
architraves with cornices, those above the doors with
consoles. Inserted attic dormers; ridge chimneys, those at
Nos.12 and 13 with bracketed cornices. History: No.13 was the
home of Joseph Livesey, (1794-1884), the pioneer of the
teetotal movement.

Listing NGR: SD5419228806

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502403

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