40, Great Avenham Street

PRESTON

SD5428NW GREAT AVENHAM STREET 941-1/14/154 (South West side) No.40

GV II

Small town house. c.1830, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth single-fronted plan, with back extensions, and through-lobby to the right. Two storeys over cellar, 2 bays, with plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorway, to the right, up 2 steps (now tiled), has a round-headed architrave with raised moulded rim and moulded imposts, and a semi-circular fanlight with original radiating metal tracery (altered door); the lobby doorway to the right has a plain lintel and board door. One window at ground floor and 2 above, all with raised sills and wedge lintels (glazing altered); cellar window with wedge lintel protected by grating. Chimneys on both slopes at left end. 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: SD5419128887