Preston House

Preston House is a house built in the mid to late 18th century and remodelled around 1840. It features red and yellow brick in Flemish bond and has a hipped Welsh-slate roof with deep eaves on the left section. The house has three brick stacks located on the ridge, off-ridge, and at the right end.

The exterior consists of three storeys and three bays, with the left bay being recessed. Each floor has a central tripartite window: on the second floor, there are 1/1 sash windows; on the first floor, the arrangement is 3/3:1/1:3/3 sashes; and on the ground floor, there are 2/2:6/1:2/2 sashes. The flanking windows on the second floor are 8/12 sashes, with the right window featuring a metal balcony, while the first floor has 12/12 sashes. All windows have painted sills, and the lower floors display painted channelled voussoirs and keystones. On the ground floor to the left, there is a wide doorcase with fluted pilasters, a leaded entablature, side-lights with coloured glass margin lights, and a four-panel door. To the right, there is a tall gauged brick segmental archway that is now glazed and has narrow glazing bars. The left return has additional 12/12 sashes with narrow glazing bars. At the rear, the house features a three-span roof, brick dentilled eaves, and horizontal-sliding sash windows.

Inside, there is a staircase, doors, doorcases, and window frames from around 1840, all with folding shutters. The house adjoins Abbey Place, and the 20th-century ownership division of No. 3 extends into Preston House. Historically, in the early 19th century, Preston House and the adjacent building functioned as a school, with a single-storey wash-house on the left that was raised to form the left bay of the existing house around 1840.