Moor Park Hotel

PRESTON

SD53SW GARSTANG ROAD 941-1/1/141 (West side) No.15 Moor Park Hotel

GV II

Public house. c.1830, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond (and formerly stuccoed), with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan. Simple classical style. Two storeys over cellars; a symmetrical 3-window facade, with stone plinth, stone frieze, cornice and blocking course, and hipped roof with 2 chimney stacks behind the ridge. The central doorway is framed by a large tetrastyle Ionic doorcase composed of engaged columns (short cast-iron railings linking each pair), with a deep frieze and moulded cornice (large modern lettering "MOOR PARK" now attached to frieze), and has a recessed panelled door with overlight; the windows at ground floor are sashed without glazing bars and have raised sills and wedge lintels, and those at 1st floor are 4-pane sashes with raised sills. Left return wall has doorway with stone surround, one window on each floor with altered glazing; right-hand return wall has 2 sashed windows at ground floor and one above; rear rendered, and C20 addition at ground floor. INTERIOR altered. History: probably associated with cattle market which occupied site on opposite side of road in earlier C19.

Listing NGR: SD5361230531