9, Bank Parade

PRESTON

SD5428NW BANK PARADE 941-1/14/23 (North side) 27/09/79 No.9 (Formerly Listed as: BANK PARADE Nos.1-14 (Consecutive))

GV II

Town house, now flats. c.1830; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan with a back extension. Three storeys over basement, 3 bays, symmetrical, the centre breaking forwards slightly; stone plinth, 1st floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded cornice. The centre has a fine round-headed doorway with brick surround in 3 orders, a set-in doorcase of engaged Ionic columns with entablature and cornice, a glazed and panelled door and fanlight with graceful pendant tracery; and at 1st floor above the doorway French windows with glazing bars and margin panes, opening onto a large rectangular cast-iron balcony with geometrical-pattern railings. The flanking bays have canted bay windows at ground floor with cornices and blocking courses, that to the right with 4-pane sashed glazing but the other with altered glazing, and 12-pane sashes at 1st floor; the 3 windows at 2nd floor have altered glazing, and all the windows on the upper floors have wedge lintels. INTERIOR: stairwell with some moulded plaster; otherwise, not inspected. HISTORY: first house built on Bank Parade, the only one shown on Myres' map of 1836.

Listing NGR: SD5422028819