17,18, Chaddock Street

PRESTON

SD5429SW CHADDOCK STREET 941-1/12/52 (North East side) Nos.17 AND 18

GV II

Pair of small town houses. c.1840, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with separate back extensions and central through-lobby. Two storeys over cellars, a 4-window range, with 1st-floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorways, to the left and right respectively, both up one nosed step, are elliptical-arched with gauged brick voussoirs and have set-in square-headed doorcases with hollow-moulded surrounds, cornices, and semi-elliptical fanlights (doors and fanlights altered); the lobby doorway in the centre has a chamfered surround and board door. Each has one window at ground floor and 2 above, those at No.18 sashed without glazing bars (those at No.17 with altered glazing), all with raised sills and wedge lintels; cellar windows with wedge lintels, No.18 a casement protected by grating (No.17 blocked). Chimney stacks on both slopes at the junction. Rear: long back extensions; back yard of No.18 with paved-over former well. INTERIOR: No.18 has dog-legged staircase with stick balusters and mahogany handrail, and 2-room cellar with hob-grate fireplaces in both rooms. Forms part of an almost complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class houses in this street.

Listing NGR: SD5404629025