Description

PRESTON

SD5428NW GREAT AVENHAM STREET
941-1/14/149 (North East side)
No.21

GV II

Small town house. c.1825, altered. Red brick in 4+1 English
garden wall bond (now painted red), with sandstone dressings
and slate roof. Double-depth single-fronted plan, with back
extension and through-lobby. Two storeys over cellars, 2 bays,
with plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorway, to
the left, has a round-headed architrave with set-in Tuscan
quarter-columns, plain lintel, and semi-circular fanlight
hollow-moulded surround and radiating glazing bars; the lobby
doorway to the left of this has a plain lintel and board door.
One window at ground floor and 2 above, all 4-pane sashes with
raised sills and wedge lintels; cellar window with wedge
lintel and grating. Lead downspout to right of door. 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: SD5416728949

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512652

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover