Waterstones Bookshop

PRESTON

SD5429SW FISHERGATE 941-1/12/100 (South side) No.6 Waterstone's Bookshop

GV II

Formerly known as: Booth's grocery shop FISHERGATE. Grocery shop, now bookshop. 1859, upper floors re-faced 1915, altered internally. Brick, with facade of sandstone ashlar and white faience, roof not visible but probably slate. Deep rectangular plan on corner site, with canted corner. Three storeys, 2:3:2 windows to Fishergate, 1 at the corner, 2:2:2 to Glovers Court. The ground floor, of sandstone, is a continuous arcade of round-headed arches on columns with carved foliated caps (7 bays to Fishergate, 1 at the corner between canted piers with shafts, and 6 bays to Glovers Court), each arch having a 2-centred extrados with mask keystone, and gold-coloured mosaic spandrels with brackets to a pierced parapet carried round the whole. The faienced upper floors have thin canted pilasters, a string-course over each floor, a deep frieze with swags, an enriched modillioned cornice, and arcaded windows: those at 1st floor arched like those below, and those at 2nd floor half the size and twice as many in each bay. Hipped roof. Continuation to rear, in red brick, 8 bays, with pilasters, Lombard frieze, moulded cornice, mostly round-headed winndows (blocked at ground floor), and bridge across street. INTERIOR altered.

Listing NGR: SD5403329257