14, Latham Street

PRESTON

SD5428NW LATHAM STREET 941-1/14/185 (East side) 27/09/79 No.14 (Formerly Listed as: LATHAM STREET Nos.14 AND 15 Latham House)

GV II

Town house. Probably c.1880. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone and tile dressings, slate roof. Double-depth single-fronted plan with back extension. Three storeys over cellar, with two 1st-floor windows, 3 bands of decoration between the upper windows composed of strips of tile beneath projected headers, a plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The ground floor has a round-headed doorway to the left and 2 closely-grouped round-headed 4-pane sashed windows to the right, all with broad panelled pilaster architraves including keystones and inlaid strips and bands of tiling (nail-head round the top), and heavy sills on brackets, but the details having been concealed by white paint. The upper floors have segmental-headed 4-pane sashes, those at 2nd floor shorter, all with similar sills and pilasters, and those at 1st floor with stilted heads of guaged brick with keystones. Gable chimneys. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected. Stylistically similar to No.15 to the right.

Listing NGR: SD5416028884