Description

PRESTON

SD5428NW FRENCHWOOD STREET 941-1/14/133 (North East side) No.1 Avenham Terrace

GV II

Town house. 1850s, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and concrete-tile roof. Double-depth plan on corner site, with a long back extension. Two storeys over cellar, with an ashlar plinth, 1st floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded cornice (all carried round); one bay to Frenchwood Street, the doorway to the right, up 3 steps with nosings, with a doorcase of engaged Ionic columns with entablature, cornice and blocking course, hollow-moulded surround and altered door; one window on each floor (both with altered glazing), with raised sills and a wedge lintel at ground floor. Hipped roof now lacking chimneys. Left return wall, 2 bays with similar fenestration; and continued to rear a lower back extension with 2 windows at ground floor and 3 above. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected. The item is part of an early Victorian extension, in harmonious form, to a formerly complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class town houses in this street.

Listing NGR: SD5415129030

External Links

• Wikidata Q26580307

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)