23,25, Great Avenham Street

PRESTON

SD5428NW GREAT AVENHAM STREET 941-1/14/150 (South West side) 18/02/91 Nos.23 AND 25

GV II

Pair of small town houses. c.1825, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with back extensions and central through-lobby. Two storeys over cellars, 3-window range, symmetrical, with plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorways, forming a triplet in the centre with the lobby door between, each up 2 steps, are round-headed with gauged brick voussoirs, set-in Tuscan quarter-columns, and semi-circular fanlights with radiating glazing bars; the lobby doorway has a plain lintel and board door. One window each at ground floor and 3 above (that in the centre belonging to No.23), sashed without glazing bars at ground floor of No.23 but otherwise all with altered glazing, and all with raised sills and wedge lintels; cellar windows with wedge lintels, protected by gratings. Gable chimneys. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected. Part of formerly complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class houses in this street (laid out in Great Avenham Field, advertised for sale as building plots in 1825).

Listing NGR: SD5417128945