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Latitude: 53.7599 / 53°45'35"N
Longitude: -2.7066 / 2°42'23"W
OS Eastings: 353510
OS Northings: 429519
OS Grid: SD535295
Mapcode National: GBR T8V.13
Mapcode Global: WH85M.DRCF
Plus Code: 9C5VQ75V+X8
Entry Name: Hosiery House
Listing Date: 20 December 1991
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1279794
English Heritage Legacy ID: 392051
ID on this website: 101279794
Location: Preston, Lancashire, PR1
County: Lancashire
District: Preston
Electoral Ward/Division: University
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Preston
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Preston St John and St George the Martyr
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: 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
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