28-31, Chaddock Street

This is a row of four small town houses, originally built in pairs, around 1830. They are located in Preston and form part of a largely complete group of late Georgian houses. The houses are constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. Each house has a double-depth plan and is single-fronted, with extensions to the rear. There are no through-lobbies; access to the rear yards is from a back alley to the south end of the row.

The houses are two storeys high, with cellars, and have a symmetrical arrangement of eight windows. A sill band runs across the first floor, above a plain frieze and a moulded gutter cornice. The doorways, paired in the centre of each pair of houses, lead up two steps with nosings. They have round-headed architraves with three recessed Tuscan quarter-columns in each pair, plain lintels, and semicircular fanlights with convex moulded surrounds. Numbers 28 and 29 have six-panel doors, while the others have been altered. The windows are sash windows, without glazing bars to most, except for number 29 which has altered glazing. All have raised sills, and the ground-floor windows have wedge lintels; the cellar windows have wedge lintels and gratings. Chimneys are located at both ends of the row, and a large, linear, multiple-flue chimney stack is situated in the centre. The interiors were not inspected.