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Latitude: 53.7546 / 53°45'16"N
Longitude: -2.6966 / 2°41'47"W
OS Eastings: 354167
OS Northings: 428918
OS Grid: SD541289
Mapcode National: GBR TBC.H2
Mapcode Global: WH85M.KW4J
Plus Code: 9C5VQ833+R9
Entry Name: 26 and 28 Great Avenham Street
Listing Date: 20 December 1991
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1217984
English Heritage Legacy ID: 392035
ID on this website: 101217984
Location: Avenham, Preston, Lancashire, PR1
County: Lancashire
District: Preston
Electoral Ward/Division: Town Centre
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Preston
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Preston St John and St George the Martyr
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Building
SD5428NW
941-1/14/151
PRESTON
GREAT AVENHAM STREET (South West side)
Nos.26 AND 28
GV
II
Pair of town houses. c.1830, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with back extensions, and through-lobby to left of No.26. Three storeys over cellars, 1+2 bays, with 1st-floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded cornice. The doorways, both to the left, differ in detail: No.26, up 2 steps, has a doorcase of engaged Tuscan columns with square abaci, plain frieze and moulded cornice, and a segmental fanlight; No.28 has a round-headed architrave with set-in Tuscan quarter columns, and semi-circular fanlight with hollow-moulded surround; the lobby doorway to the left of No.26 has a wedge lintel and board door. No.26 has one window at ground floor and 2 on each floor above, No.28 has one window on each floor, all these windows sashed without glazing bars and all with raised sills and wedge lintels; cellar windows with wedge lintels, No.26 with grating and No.28 blocked. Lead downspout at junction descending only to ground-floor level where it enters the wall above the lobby 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: SD5416328919
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