8, East Cliff

PRESTON

SD5328NE EAST CLIFF 941-1/13/97 (South side) 27/09/79 No.8

GV II

Detached town house, now education centre and offices. c.1835, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan. Two storeys over basement, a symmetrical 3-window facade, with plinth, 1st-floor band and prominent projecting eaves. The doorway has a doorcase with coupled pilasters and entablature with dentilled cornice, and a panelled door and overlight with vertical glazing bars. The windows are all 16-pane sashes with raised sills and flat-arched heads. Roof with projected verges and gable chimneys. Side walls have inter alia roundel windows in the gables. The south front has 2 segmental 3-window bows (terminating below the eaves), with a plain frieze over each floor, and sashed windows on each floor. INTERIOR has dog-legged staircase with stick balusters and mahogany handrail with wreathed curtail. Added 2-storey wing on east side.

Listing NGR: SD5361528759