7, Winckley Square

No. 7 Winckley Square is a large town house, now used as an office, built between 1830 and 1831 for the Reverend Roger Carus-Wilson, the Vicar of Preston. The building is constructed of red brick, primarily in English garden wall bond, with the facade featuring hand-made brick and unusual bonding at the ground floor. It has sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The long rectangular plan is oriented at right angles to the street, with a short wing at the rear right-hand corner.

The house has three storeys over a basement and a four-bay facade, which may have been remodeled in the late 19th century. It features broad banded brick pilasters between the ground floor openings, with the bands being four courses deep and the middle courses made of small headers. There is a broad string course at the first floor, coupled corner pilasters on the upper floors made of brick with stone bases and caps, a deep frieze, and a prominent moulded cornice.

The doorway in the third bay is approached by three steps with nosings, the second step equipped with boot-scrapers. It has a plain stone surround with panelled reveals, a recessed panelled door with egg-and-dart decoration on the lintel, and a plain rectangular overlight. The windows are sashed without glazing bars; those at the ground floor have panelled aprons, those at the first floor have cornices on consoles, and those at the second floor are square with raised sills. The hipped roof has two receding ridges and one chimney on the right-hand side.

At the rear, there is a two-storey wing attached to the right-hand corner, featuring a wagon archway leading to the rear courtyard. Inside, there is an open-well staircase with slender moulded stick balusters and a wreathed mahogany handrail, along with a well featuring a Vitruvian-scroll and a frieze decorated with wreaths.