Description

PRESTON

SD5428NW FRENCHWOOD STREET
941-1/14/131 (South West side)
04/01/91 Nos.60, 61 AND 62

GV II

Row of 3 small town houses. c.1830-35, altered (and renovation
in progress at No.61). Red brick in 5+1 English garden wall
bond (No.60 rebuilt and No.62 painted red), with sandstone
dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house
single-fronted, with back extensions, and through-lobbies in
the centre between Nos.60 and 61 and to the right at No.62.
Two storeys over cellars, each house 2 bays; with a plain
frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorways, to the left
at No.60 (up 2 steps) and coupled at Nos.61 and 62 (up one
step), have round-headed architraves with set-in Tuscan
quarter columns, plain lintels, and semicircular fanlights
with hollow-moulded surrounds; the lobby doorways have plain
lintels and board doors. Each house has one window at ground
floor and 2 above, all sashed without glazing bars except at
ground floor of No.62, and all with raised sills and wedge
lintels; cellar windows protected by a grating. Ridge
chimneys. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected. The item is part of
a formerly complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class
town houses in this street.

Listing NGR: SD5416428979

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502438

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)