21, Great Avenham Street

PRESTON

SD5428NW GREAT AVENHAM STREET 941-1/14/149 (North East side) No.21

GV II

Small town house. c.1825, altered. Red brick in 4+1 English garden wall bond (now painted red), with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth single-fronted plan, with back extension and through-lobby. Two storeys over cellars, 2 bays, with plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorway, to the left, has a round-headed architrave with set-in Tuscan quarter-columns, plain lintel, and semi-circular fanlight hollow-moulded surround and radiating glazing bars; the lobby doorway to the left of this has a plain lintel and board door. One window at ground floor and 2 above, all 4-pane sashes with raised sills and wedge lintels; cellar window with wedge lintel and grating. Lead downspout to right of door. 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: SD5416728949