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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505148

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover