40,41, Frenchwood Street

PRESTON

SD5428NW FRENCHWOOD STREET 941-1/14/318 (South West side) Nos.40 AND 41

GV II

Pair of small town houses. c.1850, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond with tuck-pointing, with sandstone dressings, slate roof to No.40 (concrete tiles to NO.41). Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with back extensions. Two storeys over cellars, 2 + 2 bays; with a plinth, 1st floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorways, up 3 and 1 steps respectively, have moulded architraves with dentilled cornices on consoles, and altered doors with overlights. Each house has one window at ground floor and 2 above, all with raised sills and wedge lintels, but all with altered glazing. Roof hipped at left corner; large lateral multiple-flue chimney stack at junction. Rear: individual extensions with gable chimneys. INTERIOR not inspected, but believed to have had keeping-cellars under front rooms, wash-houses in back extensions. The item is part of a formerly complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class town houses in this street.

Listing NGR: SD5423528899