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36, 38, Great Avenham Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Preston, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7544 / 53°45'15"N

Longitude: -2.6963 / 2°41'46"W

OS Eastings: 354186

OS Northings: 428896

OS Grid: SD541288

Mapcode National: GBR TBD.XN

Mapcode Global: WH85M.KW8P

Plus Code: 9C5VQ833+QF

Entry Name: 36, 38, Great Avenham Street

Listing Date: 20 December 1991

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1279791

English Heritage Legacy ID: 392037

ID on this website: 101279791

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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Description


PRESTON

SD5428NW GREAT AVENHAM STREET 941-1/14/153 (South West side) Nos.36 AND 38

GV II

Pair of small town houses. c.1830, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with coupled back extensions and central through-lobby. Two storeys over cellars, 2+ 2 bays, symmetrical, with plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorways, forming a triplet in the centre with the lobby door between, both up 2 altered steps, are elliptical-arched with gauged brick voussoirs, set-in Tuscan quarter-columns, moulded lintels, and elliptical fanlights, that at No.38 with elegant radiating metal tracery (doors altered); the lobby doorway has a plain lintel and board door. Each has one window at ground floor and 2 above, all with altered glazing except at 1st floor of No.38 which are 4-pane sashes, and all with raised sills and wedge lintels; cellar windows with wedge lintels, protected by gratings. Chimneys on front and rear slopes at both ends. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected. Part of formerly complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class houses in this street (laid out in Great Avenham Field, advertised for sale as building plots in 1825).

Listing NGR: SD5418228896

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