Description

PRESTON

SD5428NW FRENCHWOOD STREET
941-1/14/318 (South West side)
Nos.40 AND 41

GV II

Pair of small town houses. c.1850, altered. Red brick in
Flemish bond with tuck-pointing, with sandstone dressings,
slate roof to No.40 (concrete tiles to NO.41). Double-depth
plan, each house single-fronted, with back extensions. Two
storeys over cellars, 2 + 2 bays; with a plinth, 1st floor
sill-band, plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The
doorways, up 3 and 1 steps respectively, have moulded
architraves with dentilled cornices on consoles, and altered
doors with overlights. Each house has one window at ground
floor and 2 above, all with raised sills and wedge lintels,
but all with altered glazing. Roof hipped at left corner;
large lateral multiple-flue chimney stack at junction. Rear:
individual extensions with gable chimneys. INTERIOR not
inspected, but believed to have had keeping-cellars under
front rooms, wash-houses in back extensions. The item is part
of a formerly complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class
town houses in this street.

Listing NGR: SD5423528899

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502434

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey