Description

PRESTON

SD5428NW FRENCHWOOD STREET
941-1/14/128 (South West side)
Nos.53 AND 54

GV II

Pair of small town houses. c.1835, altered.Red brick in
Flemish bond (tuck-pointed at No.53), with sandstone dressings
and slate roof. Double-depth halls-adjoining plan (no
through-lobby), each house single-fronted, with coupled back
extensions. Two storeys over cellars, 2+2 bays; with a 1st
floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The
doorways, coupled in the centre, have round-headed architraves
with set-in Tuscan quarter columns, plain lintels, and
semicircular fanlights with convex moulded surrounds, panelled
door at No.54 (altered at No.53). Each house has one window at
ground floor and 2 above, those at No.54 sashed without
glazing bars (altered glazing at No.53), all with raised sills
and wedge lintels; cellar windows with rectangular lintels,
protected by gratings. Gable chimneys. Rear and INTERIOR not
inspected. The item is part of a formerly complete set of late
Georgian lower-middle class town houses in this street.

Listing NGR: SD5419728943

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502437

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Recommended Books

• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)