10,12,14, LANCASTER ROAD

PRESTON

SD5429SW LANCASTER ROAD 941-1/12/168 (East side) 27/09/79 Nos.10, 12 AND 14

GV II

Shops with offices over. c.1854; altered. Painted ashlar facade to brick carcase, slate roof. Rectangular plan. Classical style. Three storeys and attic, 5 bays, with modillioned cornice to ground floor, giant Composite pilastrade to upper floors, moulded frieze, emphatic modillioned cornice and plain parapet. The ground floor has square piers with elaborate coupled consoles to the cornice above, coupled doorways to the left under a keyed segmental arch, a single doorway to the right with a set-in moulded architrave under a lintel with anthemion crest, and an inserted doorway in the centre flanked by altered windows; the upper floors have diminishing sashed windows without glazing bars, those at 1st floor with moulded architraves, all recessed and clasped between small square fillets treated as pilasters with acanthus caps. Attic skylight in roof. INTERIOR: at right-hand end, an open well staircase in C18 style, with open string, scrolled brackets, stout turned balusters and moulded handrail, moulded plaster cornices (acanthus etc); doorway at 1st floor with large open-pedimented architrave, opening into full-width hall. Forms part of block with Nos 16 and 18, Nos 20 and 22, and No.24 to left (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD5412229397