1-8, Frenchwood Street

PRESTON

SD5429SW FRENCHWOOD STREET 941-1/12/118 (North East side) Nos.1-8 (Consecutive)

GV II

Row of 8 small town houses. c.1830, altered. Red brick in 5+1 English garden wall bond (Nos.3 and 4 now roughcast, No.6 painted red, and No.8 rebuilt), with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, a through-lobby in the centre of each pair. Two storeys over cellars, each house 2 bays; with a plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorways of each pair, up 2 steps with nosings (except Nos.4, 5 and 6, which have altered steps), forming a triplet with the lobby door between, have round-headed architraves with set-in Tuscan quarter columns, plain lintels, and semicircular fanlights with hollow-moulded surrounds and altered glazing, and altered doors. Each house has one window at ground floor and 2 above, all with raised sills and those at ground floor with wedge lintels (all glazing altered); cellar windows with wedge lintels, those at Nos.6, 7 and 8 protected by gratings (others altered). Ridge chimneys at the junctions of the pairs. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected, but known to have former laundry cellars under front rooms. The item is part of a formerly complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class town houses in this street.

Listing NGR: SD5417729001