Preston House

SO9445 648-1/5/106 03/08/72

PERSHORE

DEFFORD ROAD (West side) Preston House

GV II

House. Mid-late C18, remodelled c 1840. Red and yellow brick in Flemish bond. Hipped Welsh-slate roof with deep eaves soffit to left section; 3 brick stacks, to ridge, off-ridge, and to right end. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3 bays, that on left recessed. Central window on each floor is tripartite having, on 2nd floor, 1/1 sashes; on 1st floor, 3/3:1/1:3/3 sashes; on ground floor, 2/2:6/1:2/2 sashes. Flanking windows on 2nd floor are 8/12 sashes, that on right with metal balcony, and on 1st floor 12/12 sashes. All have painted sills and, on lower floors, painted channelled voussoirs and keystones. On ground floor to left, wide doorcase with fluted pilasters, leaded entablature, side-lights with coloured glass margin lights, and 4-panel door.To right, tall gauged brick segmental archway, now glazed and with narrow glazing bars. Left return has further 12/12 sashes with narrow glazing bars. To rear, 3-span roof, brick dentilled eaves and horizontal-sliding sash. INTERIOR: c1840 staircase, doors, doorcases, and window frames with folding shutters. Adjoins Abbey Place, and C20 ownership division of No.3 (qv) extends into Preston House. HISTORICAL NOTE: in the early C19 the two buildings comprised a school with single-storey wash-house to left, the latter raised to form the left bay of the existing house c1840.

Listing NGR: SO9485745645