2-12, 12A, BUSHELL PLACE

A terrace of 13 town houses located in Preston, built around 1830, with alterations made subsequently. The terrace is composed of four distinct builds: numbers 2 to 7 are arranged in pairs, while numbers 8 to 12A, and number 1 Porter Place, form a single block. The houses are arranged with a double-depth plan, each presenting a single front and extending to the rear. They are two storeys high with cellars and attics. A continuous plain frieze and a moulded gutter cornice run along the terrace.

The doorways, located on the left-hand side of each house (except number 12A and number 1 Porter Place), lead up two steps. Each doorway features a Tuscan doorcase with engaged columns, a plain frieze, a moulded cornice, plain jambs with imposts, and an elliptical fanlight. The fanlights have radiating glazing bars at numbers 2 to 5, 8, 10 and 12A, leaded glazing at number 12, and plain glazing elsewhere. The ground floors feature added canted bay windows constructed of stone, each with an unhorned four-pane sash window, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course. Some houses have modern plastic windows. First-floor windows have raised sills and wedge lintels, most being sashed without glazing bars, although numbers 10, 12, and 12A have 12-pane sashes. Ridge chimney stacks are present, with numbers 12 and 12A sharing a coupled stack; the roof ridge of number 12A is higher than the others.

Number 1 Porter Place, at the southern end of the terrace, presents only two bays to Bushell Place, but continues to the rear for a longer distance. It features a blind window near the front corner at the first floor, and is otherwise three storeys and five bays. A doorway in the first bay, up three steps, has a pedimented architrave with Adam-style enrichment above, and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. It has four windows on the ground floor, some of which were boarded at the time of survey, 12-pane sashes on the first floor, and eight-pane sashes on the second floor, all with raised sills and wedge lintels. The rear elevations show individual back extensions, some of which are three storeys high.

Internally, the houses feature stick-baluster staircases and moulded plaster cornices. The terrace was built by the Trustees of Bushells Hospital, Goosnargh.