9,10, Chapel Street

PRESTON

SD5329SE CHAPEL STREET 941-1/11/65 (West side) Nos.9 AND 10

GV II

Pair of town houses, now offices. c.1800-1810; altered. Brown brick in English garden wall bond (4+1, but varied by inclusion of stretchers in the header courses), with scored stucco to ground floor, slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted. Three storeys over cellars, 1+1 windows, symmetrical; with plinth, sill-bands to ground and 1st floors, plain shallow frieze. The doorways, coupled in the centre and up 3 steps, have plain stone surrounds under a single pediment with dentils (both doors altered). The ground floor has late C19 square windows with altered glazing and wedge lintels with keystones and moulded borders, and banded rustication to the wall beneath the sill-band; the 1st floor has a moulded sill-band and sashed windows with wedge lintels, both with glazing bars but the lower leaves altered; the 2nd floor has square windows with raised sills and heads under the eaves, that to the right sashed without glazing bars but the other with altered glazing. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SD5372829216