Hosiery House

PRESTON

SD5329NE LADYWELL STREET 941-1/9/167 (East side) Hosiery House

II

Probably a warehouse; now clothing wholesaler's premises. Probably mid C19; altered. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, slate roof. Rectangular plan. Three storeys and attic, a 9-window range; ground floor of west side and south end now painted white up to 1st-floor sill level; windows have raised sills and rectangular lintels, those at ground floor of west side now blocked and doorway inserted at left end, those at 1st and 2nd floor with altered glazing (except that at right-hand end of top floor, which is bricked); small chimney at right-hand corner of roof. South end has blocked segmental wagon archway (smaller doorway inserted under it), a rectangular garage doorway to the right, a loading door at 2nd floor above this and windows on 3 levels including 2 to attic. Rear has similar fenestration including blocked windows at ground floor, and 2 stair-windows. INTERIOR: 3 rows of slender cast-iron columns with simple cruciform pads, carrying timber beams; collar-truss roof with cast-iron braces to the collars and king-posts with fishbone struts; unusual large cast-iron braces under ends of principal rafters (like ashlar-pieces). A sturdy utilitarian building of stone in a town dominated by brick.

Listing NGR: SD5351029519