4 And Attached Railings

PRESTON

SD5329SE WINCKLEY SQUARE 941-1/11/292 (North side) 27/09/79 No.4 and attached railings

GV II

Large town house, now offices. c.1800, for Nicholas Grimshaw; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan. Three storeys over basement, 5 bays, symmetrical; ashlar basement treated as a plinth, 1st floor sill-band, and prominent moulded cornice. The central doorway, up 3 steps with nosings, has a pedimented doorcase with slender engaged Tuscan columns which have fluted caps, square abaci, and a frieze with 5 blocks of fluting; plain jambs with small imposts, a semi-circular fanlight, and a panelled door. The ground and 1st floors have 4-pane sashed windows, the 2nd floor has unhorned 9-pane sashes, all with raised sills and wedge lintels. Basement areas both sides of door protected by iron railings with dogbars, an urn finial to the left of the steps but otherwise mostly with knob finials (including the dog-bars). Stone gable copings, chimneys at the side walls. The right-hand return wall (to Winckley Street) has (inter alia) a doorway and 2 windows at ground floor with moulded achitraves and an attic window with radiating glazing bars. Rear: full-height round-headed stair-window with radiating glazing bars. INTERIOR: open-well staircase with stick balusters and wreathed mahogany handrail. History: second house built in Winckley Square, after No.11 Winckley Street (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD5381029190