Central Conservative Club

The Central Conservative Club, located on Church Street in Preston, is a Conservative Working Men's Club built between 1892 and 1893, with some alterations. It is constructed of red brick, featuring terracotta and sandstone dressings, and has a slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan and is designed in the Jacobean style. Its three-storey facade consists of two bays and a corner oriel on the left. Notable features include a plinth, a first-floor balcony, a two-storey octagonal corner oriel, a moulded cornice, and a balustraded parapet with a gablet above the centre.

To the right, there is a doorway with a pedimented architrave, and the bases of the jambs bear inscriptions noting that the foundation stone was laid by Edmund Birley Esq., JP, on December 17th, 1892, and that the club was opened by the Marquis of Salisbury KG on October 17th, 1893. The left side has three altered windows, while the stone balcony is supported by stone brackets and features delicately scrolled wrought-iron railings. The upper floors have mullion-and-transom windows, with six lights on the first floor and four lights on the second floor, as well as tall narrow transomed windows in the oriel, all with sandstone surrounds. Above the windows are terracotta panels, with those on the first floor decorated with swags and shields, and those on the second floor including panels inscribed with "P.C.W.M.C." and "1893". The gablet is stepped and pilastered, featuring an oculus and kneelers, while the left gable wall is rendered.

The interior was not inspected. Historically, the Preston Conservative Working Men's Club emerged from organizations aimed at promoting the political interests of local landlord and property developer Sir W.E.M. Tomlinson MP, following the Second Parliamentary Reform Act in 1867, in opposition to middle-class Conservative leaders who established the Guildhall Street Conservative Club.