Description

PRESTON

SD5329SE WINCKLEY SQUARE
941-1/11/293 (North East side)
27/09/79 No.5

GV II

Large town house, now part of annex to college of further
education (with No.11 Winckley Street, q.v.). 1854-5, for
Thomas Miller; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with
sandstone ashlar dressings and slate roof. Double-pile plan,
double-fronted, plus a short projecting wing at the right-hand
corner. Italian palazzo style. Three storeys over basement, a
symmetrical 5-window main range, with ashlar plinth,
sill-bands to all floors, string-course with Vitruvian scroll
ornament over ground floor, and frieze with rosettes between
moulded brackets to a prominent cornice. The central entrance
has a large and elaborate stone porch including blocked
semi-columns with composite capitals, prominent cornice and
pierced parapet, a round-headed archway with impost cartouches
monogrammed "TM" and a keystone cartouche, internal steps and
barrel-vaulted ceiling, and a large round-headed inner doorway
with side lights and fanlight (all glazing either engraved or
coloured). The windows are sashed without glazing bars and
have flat-arched heads; the basement has large rectangular
openings with ornamental cast-iron grills, the areas each side
of the porch surrounded by plinths of former railings. Hipped
roof, ridge chimneys. The wing to the right is slightly lower,
has a plinth and dentilled cornice, and a tripartite sashed
window a ground floor, but is otherwise similar. East side
wall has 2 tripartite stair-windows, the upper Venetian. Rear
has various sashed windows, and some additions.
INTERIOR: entrance lobby with steps, coffered barrel-vaulted
ceiling, shell tympani over inner and outer doors; lateral
hallway with coloured tile floor, large open-well stone
staircase with decorated cast-iron balusters, and
stair-windows with coloured glass, the lower including a
shield dated "MDCCCLV", and upper with similar glazing
including monogram "TM". History: Thomas Miller was proprietor
of Horrocks Miller & Co, the largest cotton firm in Preston.

Listing NGR: SD5385929202

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568972

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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