The Old Dog Inn

PRESTON

SD5429SW CHURCH STREET 941-1/12/78 (South side) 27/09/79 No.133 The Old Dog Inn

GV II

Public house. Probably earlier C19; altered 1898. Brick, the front faced with rusticated ashlar at ground floor and stucco above, and all painted; slate roof. Double-depth plan, with through wagon entry at left end. Three storeys (probably over cellars), 4 bays, the ground floor treated as a rustic and the upper floors (except the 1st bay) as a symmetrical 3-bay classical composition with giant pilasters, moulded cornice, and a central pediment containing a medallion. The ground floor has a round-headed doorway in the 3rd bay under an elaborate segmental-pedimented canopy, the pediment containing monogrammed lettering "18 MB & Co Ltd 98" (probably Massey Burnley brewery), 2 sashed windows to the right, a wide elliptical-arched window to the left with a keyed moulded architrave, and at the left end an elliptical-arched wagon entry with a similar keyed moulded head and imposts (that to the right run out as a cornice over a doorway at the canted corner of the entry), and decorated wrought-iron gates. The upper floors have sashed windows with moulded architraves, those in the 3rd bay coupled and with a frieze over the 1st floor lettered "THE OLD DOG INN", and those at 1st floor of the flanking bays with cornices. Rear: scored render, narrow sashed windows with raised sills and wedge lintels, sashed stair-window with margin panes. INTERIOR altered.

Listing NGR: SD5426129397