Numbers 52 And 54 (Clock Face Public House)

SJ 49 SE 6/31 19/3/51

PRESCOT DERBY STREET (north side) Nos. 52 and 54 (Clock Face Public House) (formerly listed separately)

G.V. II

House and public house. Early C19 with facing c.1830. Brick with stone dressings and facing, slate roof. Main facade of No. 54 at right angle to street; 2 storeys, 5 irregular bays. 1st floor sill band and top cornice and parapet with wreaths, and panel with flanking acroteria to entrance bay. Panelled pilasters to ends. Ground floor has canted bay window to 1st bay, other 2 bays have segmental- headed windows with tripartite sashes. 1st floor windows have architraves, that to entrance bay has frieze and consoled cornice. All windows are sashed with glazing bars. Entrance to 2nd bay has glazed doorcase with complete overlight and 4-fielded-panel door. Distyle-in-antis Ionic porch. 4 stacks. Stone-coped brick wall to right has gate and stone gatepiers with incised lines and pediments. Right return to street of 5 bays, the 1st 2 are to No. 54 and are higher, with cornice and parapet. 1st floor sill band. Windows have, wedge lintels and are sashed. Elliptical- headed entrances have inset Doric doorcases with fluted friezes, complete fanlights and 6-panel doors. No. 52 has casements to ground floor and two 1st floor windows are boarded (1985). No. 54 was built as Dower house to Knowsley estate and was known as West End House.

Listing NGR: SJ4615492801