1 Lune Street

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SD5329SE 941-1/11/195

PRESTON LUNE STREET (West side) No.1

(Formerly listed as Shelley Assurance Building)

27/09/79

II Former Friendly Society office. Late C19 rebuilding for society established 1831; slightly altered late C20. Polished dark brown granite at ground floor, red brick with sandstone dressings above; slate roof. Shallow rectangular plan on corner site, with chamfered corner. Baroque style. Three storeys plus corner turret, with a 3-window facade to Lune Street and 1-window facade to Fishergate; with stone bands, frieze, modillioned cornice and panelled and balustraded parapet. The ground floor, of channelled rusticated polished granite, has wide segmental-arched windows with triple keystones, that in the centre wider (and the sills recently lowered, but this alteration not now detectable), and in the chamfered corner a doorway with moulded architrave including triple keystone, under a prominent open segmental pediment. The 1st floor has a tripartite window in the centre with architrave including a triple keystone and open segmental pediment, and a single-light windows on each side with similar architrave (except the pediment); the 2nd floor has single-light windows with simpler architraves; and the Fishergate facade windows like those of the centre. The canted corner has an elaborately enriched corbel carrying a tall 5-sided oriel with narrow windows at 2nd floor, finished above the cornice as an octagonal turret with small round-headed keyed windows, a prominent bracketed cornice, and a domed copper cap with finial. Good original INTERIOR.

Listing NGR: SD5375429292