Description

PRESTON

SD5428NW GREAT AVENHAM STREET
941-1/14/155 (South West side)
No.42

GV II

Small town house. c.1830, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond,
with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth
single-fronted plan, with back extension. Two storeys over
cellar, 2 bays, with plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice.
The doorway, to the left, up 3 steps with nosings, is
round-headed with gauged brick voussoirs, set-in Tuscan
quarter-columns, 4-panel door and semi-circular fanlight with
altered glazing. One window at ground floor and 2 above, all
unhorned sashes without glazing bars, with raised sills and
wedge lintels; cellar window (casement with glazing bars),
with wedge lintel and protected by grating. 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: SD5419428882

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502447

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback