Description

The following building shall be added:

PRESCOT MARKET PLACE
SJ 49 SE
6/50 No 9, with former
workshop to rear

II

House with shop, and former workshop to rear. The house fronting Market Place early
C19, the workshop possibly C17 in part. Rendered brick, slate roof; the workshop
random rubble. Double-depth house with rear wing; 3 storeys, regular 2 window
range. Parapet raised and shaped to centre, with moulded cornice. Hornless sash
windows, 9-pane to 2nd, 15-pane to 1st floors, stucco pilasters. Mid to late
C19 shop front with central doorway (under rectangular overlight), and renewed brick
plinth. House doorway to left, the door panelled. Large brick stack to front shape
of roof to left. To the rear a structure understood to be the earliest free-standing
tool and watchmaker's workshop in Prescot (which was one of the national centres of
watch making in England); plain rectangular plan, single-storey, much patched (with
brick in part), flag floor; various openings altered.

Listing NGR: SJ4710892821

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26338921

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)