88,89, Fishergate Hill

PRESTON

SD5329 FISHERGATE HILL 941-1/6/112 (North side) 27/09/79 Nos.88 AND 89

GV II

Pair of town houses, now offices and surgeries. c.1830-40, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan, each house double-fronted, with added back extensions. Three storeys over basements, 3+3 windows, symmetrical, with 1st-floor sill-band, plain frieze, moulded gutter cornice and low blocking course. Each has a central doorway protected by a porch with fluted Doric columns (and unfluted pilasters), with deep entablature, moulded cornice and blocking course, and a panelled door with plain overlight, each porch mounted on a short flight of steps forming a bridge over the basement area (that to No.89 now filled up). The windows, diminishing in the height and all with raised sills and wedge lintels, are sashed without glazing bars, except one at 1st floor and 2 at 2nd floor of No.88. Lateral chimney stack at the junction, altered chimney at right-hand gable. Left gable wall rebuilt in modern brick. Rear: various 12- and 6-pane sashed windows at No.89; added back extension in centre of each (2-storey at No.88, 1-storey at No.89). INTERIOR: moulded architraves to doors, moulded plaster cornices in both entrance halls, very elaborate vine friezes in principal ground floor rooms, doglegged staircases (both now with boarded balusters).

Listing NGR: SD5317229085