Golden Cross Hotel

PRESTON

SD5429NW LANCASTER ROAD 941-1/10/173 (East side) 22/01/90 No.60 Golden Cross Hotel

GV II

Public house. c.1860; altered. Brown brick, part stuccoed, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan with rear wing. Classical style. Three storeys with cellars and attic, 3 bays, symmetrical; pilasters and banded rustication at ground floor (which also has a cornice), rusticated quoins to the upper floors, frieze with triglyphs and guttae, prominent cornice with mutules, blocking course. The ground floor has a central doorway, narrow vertical-rectangular windows next to this and wider windows beyond these, all these windows with panelled aprons and all framed by broad pilasters terminating in large foliated consoles which carry a cornice. The 1st floor has 2-light casement windows, those in the outer bays with pedimented architraves and that in the centre with a simple moulded surround and straight cornice; the 2nd floor has sashed windows without glazing bars, all with shouldered surrounds but those in the outer bays with small decorated crests, and a plain band above with raised lettering GOLDEN CROSS HOTEL. Gable chimneys. The left return wall has 2 doorways with raised plain surrounds and small cornices (the further one blocked), 2 sashes between these with arched glazing and stained glass spandrels, two 12-pane sashes on each floor above (that on the left at 1st floor with altered glazing in the lower leaf), and 2 narrow 4-pane sashes at attic level. Short wing continuing to rear has altered windows and mono-pitch roof. Rear: sashed windows with 12 and 4 panes at ground floor, 12 and 12 at 1st floor, 4 and 4 at 2nd floor. INTERIOR altered at ground floor; otherwise not inspected. Item is north end of block otherwise comprised of Nos.50 to 58 (q.v.), having strong group value with Town Hall (q.v.) and Amounderness House (q.v.) opposite, and visual similarity to Nos.12 to 24 to the south (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD5407229558