33,34, MARKET PLACE

PRESTON

SD5329SE MARKET PLACE 941-1/11/68 (West side) 16/11/88 Nos.33 AND 34

GV II

Two shops, originally a house (probably with shops towards Market Place). Late C16/early C17, later C17 rear wing to No.34, substantially altered in C19 and C20. Timber-framed, rendered and part weather-boarded, with Welsh slate roofs. Hall and crosswing plan on very small scale, No.33 to left being the crosswing. One and a half storeys, 2 bays. No.33 is gabled, with barge-boarded projected verges, and has a C19 shop front with recessed doorway to left and 2-tier window to right, the upper half with slender turned shafts and delicate arched glazing bars and scrolls, the whole crossed by a fascia board; and, above this, a window of 3 small square lights with coloured leaded glazing. The facade of No.34 is late C20. INTERIOR: No.33 (the wing) has 2 full bays of framing and part of a 3rd survive: one roof truss with ovolo-moulded tie-beam and principals morticed and pegged at the apex, front wall framing with principals and yoke, and side walls with mortices in the wall-plate for studs and braces. No.34 has a king-post roof truss with a large cambered tie-beam, queen struts, and square-set ridge piece (the upper parts of this visible from No.33); another ovolo-moulded beam; and a rear wing with parts of a large principal-rafter roof truss and purlins of large scantling.

Listing NGR: SD5396829414