Description

PRESTON

SD5428NW LATHAM STREET
941-1/14/185 (East side)
27/09/79 No.14
(Formerly Listed as:
LATHAM STREET
Nos.14 AND 15
Latham House)

GV II

Town house. Probably c.1880. Red brick in Flemish bond, with
sandstone and tile dressings, slate roof. Double-depth
single-fronted plan with back extension. Three storeys over
cellar, with two 1st-floor windows, 3 bands of decoration
between the upper windows composed of strips of tile beneath
projected headers, a plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice.
The ground floor has a round-headed doorway to the left and 2
closely-grouped round-headed 4-pane sashed windows to the
right, all with broad panelled pilaster architraves including
keystones and inlaid strips and bands of tiling (nail-head
round the top), and heavy sills on brackets, but the details
having been concealed by white paint. The upper floors have
segmental-headed 4-pane sashes, those at 2nd floor shorter,
all with similar sills and pilasters, and those at 1st floor
with stilted heads of guaged brick with keystones. Gable
chimneys. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected. Stylistically
similar to No.15 to the right.

Listing NGR: SD5416028884

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512975

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