Description

PRESTON

SD5428NW GREAT AVENHAM STREET
941-1/14/150 (South West side)
18/02/91 Nos.23 AND 25

GV II

Pair of small town houses. c.1825, altered. Red brick in
Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof.
Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with back
extensions and central through-lobby. Two storeys over
cellars, 3-window range, symmetrical, with plain frieze and
moulded gutter cornice. The doorways, forming a triplet in the
centre with the lobby door between, each up 2 steps, are
round-headed with gauged brick voussoirs, set-in Tuscan
quarter-columns, and semi-circular fanlights with radiating
glazing bars; the lobby doorway has a plain lintel and board
door. One window each at ground floor and 3 above (that in the
centre belonging to No.23), sashed without glazing bars at
ground floor of No.23 but otherwise all with altered glazing,
and all with raised sills and wedge lintels; cellar windows
with wedge lintels, protected by gratings. Gable chimneys.
Rear and INTERIOR not inspected. Part of formerly complete set
of late Georgian lower-middle class houses in this street
(laid out in Great Avenham Field, advertised for sale as
building plots in 1825).

Listing NGR: SD5417128945

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502446

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