Description

PRESTON

SD5329SE CHAPEL STREET
941-1/11/65 (West side)
Nos.9 AND 10

GV II

Pair of town houses, now offices. c.1800-1810; altered. Brown
brick in English garden wall bond (4+1, but varied by
inclusion of stretchers in the header courses), with scored
stucco to ground floor, slate roof. Double-depth plan, each
house single-fronted. Three storeys over cellars, 1+1 windows,
symmetrical; with plinth, sill-bands to ground and 1st floors,
plain shallow frieze. The doorways, coupled in the centre and
up 3 steps, have plain stone surrounds under a single pediment
with dentils (both doors altered). The ground floor has late
C19 square windows with altered glazing and wedge lintels with
keystones and moulded borders, and banded rustication to the
wall beneath the sill-band; the 1st floor has a moulded
sill-band and sashed windows with wedge lintels, both with
glazing bars but the lower leaves altered; the 2nd floor has
square windows with raised sills and heads under the eaves,
that to the right sashed without glazing bars but the other
with altered glazing. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected.
Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SD5372829216

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504748

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)