Description

PRESTON

SD5428NW FRENCHWOOD STREET 941-1/14/120 (North East side) Nos.27 AND 28

GV II

Pair of town houses. Later C19, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with coupled back extension. Two storeys over cellars, each house 2 bays; with a plain frieze and prominent moulded cornice. The doorways, coupled in the centre, have moulded architraves with dentilled cornices on consoles, and 4-panel doors under rectangular overlights. Each house has one window at ground floor and 2 above, all 4-pane sashes with raised sills and wedge lintels (that at ground floor of No.27 temporarily boarded at time of survey); small-paned casement cellar windows protected by gratings. Ridge chimneys. Left return wall rebuilt. Rear: No.27 has 12-pane sashed windows on both floors, rear extension with coupled 8-paned sashes at ground floor (windows on upper floors unglazed at time of inspection). INTERIOR of No.27 has moulded plaster cornices to entrance hall and front ground floor room (heavily encrusted with paint and partly damaged), dog-legged staircase with stick balusters and wreathed mahogany handrail, skylight with coloured margin panes, attic staircase in cupboard on landing, cellar with fireplace and central drain. The item was formerly integrated with a formerly complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class town houses in this street (the row of houses to the left recently demolished).

Listing NGR: SD5425028922

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas