42, Great Avenham Street

This is a small town house dating from around 1830, located in Preston, and altered since its original construction. It’s built of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with sandstone dressings, and a slate roof. The house has a double-depth single-fronted plan, with an extension to the rear. It has two storeys over a cellar, and two bays across the front. A simple frieze and a moulded gutter cornice run along the top of the building.

The front doorway, which is to the left, is up three steps with nosings. It is round-headed, with brick voussoirs, set-in Tuscan quarter-columns, a four-panel door, and a semi-circular fanlight with altered glazing. There is one window at ground floor level and two windows above, all of which are unhorned sash windows without glazing bars. The raised sills are topped with wedge lintels. The cellar window is a casement with glazing bars, also with a wedge lintel and protected by a metal grating.

The rear of the building and the interior have not been inspected. The house was originally part of a group of late Georgian houses built for the lower-middle class, situated within Great Avenham Field, which was advertised for sale as building plots in 1825.