Description

PRESTON

SD5328NE CAMDEN PLACE
941-1/13/48 (West side)
27/09/79 Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)

GV II

Row of 3 town houses, now all offices. c.1830, in 3 builds;
altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings
and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted
and with a back extension. Two storeys over cellars, each
house 2 bays, with vertical joints between Nos.1 and 2, and 3
and 4, respectively, and a continuous frieze and moulded
cornice (continued over one bay to left of No.1, which appears
to be part of this item but is actually a back-extension to
No.25 Ribblesdale Place, q.v.). Each house has the doorway to
the left, up 2 steps, with a doorcase of engaged Tuscan
columns with square abaci, plain frieze and moulded cornice,
plain jambs with imposts, panelled door, and elliptical
fanlight (original radiating glazing bars at No.1, others
altered); the lintel of a sunk cellar window to the right
(light-wells of Nos.1 and 2 covered by gratings, others now
filled in); one window at ground floor and 2 above, all with
raised sills and wedge lintels, and all sashed without glazing
bars except those at 1st floor of No.2 which are now top-hung
casements. Nos.1 and 3 each have one chimney each side of
ridge, others now lack chinmneys.
INTERIORS: Nos.1 to 3 have small entrance halls with panelled
arches and moulded plaster modillions, and cellars under front
rooms only, with fireplaces; No.1 has dog-legged staircase
with stick balusters and carved brackets; back yard of No.2
has blocked well (filled in by order of Sanitary Purposes
Committee in 1878); No.4 remodelled internally.

Listing NGR: SD5385228950

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504716

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)