12-18, SPRING BANK

A terrace of seven small town houses located on Spring Bank, Preston, was built around 1825 and has undergone alterations since. 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 a single front, with most having individual rear extensions connected by links. The houses are two storeys high with cellars. A first-floor sill band, plain frieze, and moulded gutter cornice run along the facade. Doorways are located to the right at numbers 12 to 16, and to the left at numbers 17 and 18 (with numbers 16 and 17 sharing a coupled doorway), each with elliptical-headed entrances rising three steps, and within doorcases featuring engaged Tuscan columns, entablatures, and moulded cornices. Most of the doors have been altered, however, a panelled door remains at number 13, along with fanlights with radiating glazing bars at numbers 12 and 13. Canted bay windows have been added to numbers 14 and 18. Sashed windows without glazing bars are found at numbers 13 and 18; a 20th-century rectangular window is present at ground floor level of number 17, while the remaining windows have raised sills and wedge lintels. Ridge chimneys are present. The interiors and rear of the properties have not been inspected.