5,6, Fishergate Hill

PRESTON

SD5329 FISHERGATE HILL 941-1/6/110 (South side) 27/09/79 Nos.5 AND 6 (Formerly Listed as: FISHERGATE HILL (South side) Nos.3-10 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of town houses, now flats. c.1840, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond (rear now rendered), with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted (and without back extensions). Three storeys over cellars, 2+2 windows (but No.5 slightly wider), with 1st floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded cornice; and vertical joint between the houses. Each has the doorway to the left, up 2 steps, with a doorcase of engaged Ionic columns and entablature with cornice and blocking course, deep cavetto jambs and moulded lintel, 4-panel door and rctangular overlight (that to No.5 with geometrical panes); both have sashed windows without glazing bars, that at ground floor of No.5 larger than the others and with a moulded architrave and cornice, otherwise all with with raised sills and wedge lintels. Chimney stacks in front of the ridge at the junction and at the right-hand gable. Rear and INTERIOR altered.

Listing NGR: SD5325829099