Amounderness House

Amounderness House, Lancaster Road

Amounderness House, Lancaster Road, seems to be this position that has protected it, as it hasn’t been in use for 20 years!

https://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2023/08/amounderness-house-revamp-plans-lodged-ahead-of-workspace-hub/ – looks like work is starting after very recent planning application, some changes made after concerns raised about the modern replacement building.

Amounderness House, Lancaster Road, is listed on the National Heritage List for England.
It is a Grade II Listed Building with the List Entry Number of 1218215.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1218215

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Amounderness House History

The building was originally constructed in 1857 as a police station with holding cells, before being extended in 1901.

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MAGISTRATES’ COURT AND POLICE STATION, LANCASTER ROAD — The borough magistrates, at present, hold their court at the Town-hall, and the police-station is in Avenham-street. Spacious premises, from designs by Mr. J. E. Park, are, however, in course of erection, in Lancaster-road, which will afford superior facilities for the transaction of this department of the public business. Previously to the erection of the new police-station, in 1832, the “lock-up” was situated up a dismal alley branching from Turk’s-head-court. The Avenham-street establishment is a massive structure, and affords sufficient accommodation for the police requirements; but the site having been purchased by Messrs. Jacson and Co., cotton spinners, with the view to the enlargement of their premises, the erection of new police buildings became necessary. It was therefore determined to erect a suitable court in connection therewith, the Town-hall being ill adapted for the transaction of the magisterial business. The ground floor of the newbuilding will contain a magistrates’ clerk’s room, superintendent’s office, book-keeper’s and general police office, store room, washing room, and four cells. The upper story will include a private room for the magistrates, jury or attorney’s room, three cells, and a court house, forty feet long by thirty-two feet wide. The principal entrance, in Lancaster road, will present a front of fifty feet. The depth of the building, with front to Earl-street, will be one hundred and four feet. The estimated cost, including fire-proof floors, internal fittings, etc., is about £3,000. The architectural character of the building may be described as an adaptation of the Italian manner to modern and local requirements.

From the HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH OF PRESTON ENVIRONS,
IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER;
BY CHARLES HARDWICK, 1858

Avenham Park Lodge

Avenham Park Lodge

Avenham Park Lodge, also know as the Park Keeper’s Lodge, while modest in scale, forms an integral part of the original Victorian design of Avenham Park. Constructed in the 1860s to house park staff, the lodge reflects the care with which the park was conceived as a civic landscape of national standing. Its architecture, though not individually remarkable, is typical of the picturesque domestic style often employed for park lodges of the period, designed to harmonise with the surrounding greenery rather than dominate it.

The building’s value lies in its context. Together with Miller Park, Avenham Park is recognised as one of the finest examples of Victorian municipal parks in the country. Both parks are Grade II* Listed. The lodge contributes to this completeness of design, embodying the practical and ornamental functions that characterised mid-nineteenth-century public parks. As a familiar point of reference and a reminder of the park’s continuous care and use over more than 150 years, the lodge remains a significant element of Preston’s heritage.

The Shawe’s Arms

The Shawe’s Arms, London Road

Shawe’s Arms, London Road, Privately owned but up for sale, has had repair work carried out but not currently in use.

The building is secure and appears to be water-tight. The roof was replaced relatively recently. This was part of work that an article in Blog Preston described as an ‘extensive structural refurbishment’. There had been a fire in the building, whilst it was described as being in a derelict state during 2022. Fire crews said that youths were spotted climbing the scaffolding and getting on to a flat roof adjoining the building before the fire started. This happened on Sunday 19th June 2022.

The building is in a good location on the River Ribble and is on the Guild Wheel route. Surely there has to be potential for some sort of refreshment stop in that location.

Blog Preston article:
https://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2024/01/shawes-arms-up-for-sale-again-following-extensive-structural-refurbishment/

Shawe’s Arms History

The Shawe’s Arms, address is 279 London Road and it is adjacent to the Ribble Bridge in the Fishwick area of Preston. The building is quite small, and it thought that it was originally a Farm-cottage. Shawes Arms was once a landmark pub in Preston, dating back to at least 1824, but it has been closed since 2014.

It was renamed to Shawe’s Arms from the ‘Black Horse’ in 1843. Historically, one of the most well-known landlords was William Lobban (Loban), who ran the establishment from 1892 to 1921.

Why “Shawes Arms”?
The Shawes Arms takes its name from the Shawe (or Shaw) family, who were once prominent landowners in the Fishwick area of Preston. The family lived at Fishwick Hall, recorded in the 18th century as the seat of the Shaws. In 1760, William Shaw, an attorney of Preston, purchased part of the manor of Fishwick and made the hall his residence.

It was common practice for inns and taverns to adopt the arms or surname of influential local families, both as a mark of respect and as a way to identify with the neighbourhood’s gentry. When the former Black Horse Inn on London Road was renamed in the mid-19th century, it became the Shawes Arms, commemorating this family connection.

More in formation about the history of the Shawe’s Arms at Fishwick can be found on the PRESTON’S INNS, TAVERNS and BEERHOUSES website.

https://pubsinpreston.blogspot.com/2012/03/shawes-arms-london-road.html