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Latitude: 53.7549 / 53°45'17"N
Longitude: -2.6963 / 2°41'46"W
OS Eastings: 354187
OS Northings: 428955
OS Grid: SD541289
Mapcode National: GBR TBD.XG
Mapcode Global: WH85M.KW88
Plus Code: 9C5VQ833+XF
Entry Name: 55, 56, Frenchwood Street
Listing Date: 20 December 1991
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1279789
English Heritage Legacy ID: 392013
ID on this website: 101279789
Location: Avenham, Preston, Lancashire, PR1
County: Lancashire
District: Preston
Electoral Ward/Division: Town Centre
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Preston
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Preston St John and St George the Martyr
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
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PRESTON
SD5428NW FRENCHWOOD STREET
941-1/14/129 (South West side)
Nos.55 AND 56
GV II
Pair of small town houses. c.1835, altered. Red brick in
Flemish bond (but No.56 rebuilt) with sandstone dressings and
slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with
coupled back extensions and a through-lobby in the centre. Two
storeys over cellars, 2+ 2 bays; with a 1st floor sill-band,
plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorways, forming
a triplet in the centre with the lobby door between, both up 2
altered steps, have round-headed architraves with set-in
Tuscan quarter columns, plain lintels, and semicircular
fanlights with convex moulded surrounds, and replacement
panelled doors; and the lobby doorway has a plain lintel and
board door. Each house has one window at ground floor and 2
above, those at No.55 sashed without glazing bars
(replacements) and those at No.56 altered, all with raised
sills and wedge lintels; cellar windows with wedge lintels,
protected by grating at No.55 and iron plate at No.56. 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: SD5419028953
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