11, Friargate

PRESTON

SD5329SE FRIARGATE 941-1/11/134 (South West side) No.11

GV II

Small town house, now shop. Probably mid C18; altered. Brick, now rendered at the front and rebuilt at the rear, with slate roof. Double-depth single-fronted plan. Three low storeys with attic, a one-window facade, with a 2nd floor band, and a plain frieze and shallow moulded gutter cornice. The ground floor is a modern shop-front; the upper floors each have one sashed window in the centre, both of 12 panes but the upper with 8 panes in the lower and 4 in the upper leaf. The rear wall is rebuilt and has various additions at ground floor. Interior, on the upper floors: C18 fielded panelling in the 1st floor front room (almost completely intact except below dado rail of rear wall and in alcove to right of chimney breast), the upper flights of an open-string staircase with scrolled brackets, columnar newels, turned balusters (some missing) and ramped moulded handrail; fielded panel doors; attic with clay floor; principal-rafter roof truss (halved and pegged at the apex) with one pair of purlins and original common rafters. The item is one of only two C18 domestic INTERIORS known to have survived in the centre of the town (the other being Nos. 29-31 Church Street, q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD5388529467