53,54, FRENCHWOOD STREET

53,54, FRENCHWOOD STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207280
Date first listed:
20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:
53,54, FRENCHWOOD STREET
Statutory Address:
53,54, FRENCHWOOD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207280
Date first listed:
20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:
53,54, FRENCHWOOD STREET
Statutory Address 1:
53,54, FRENCHWOOD STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
53,54, FRENCHWOOD STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
Preston (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 54195 28947

Details

PRESTON

SD5428NW FRENCHWOOD STREET 941-1/14/128 (South West side) Nos.53 AND 54

GV II

Pair of small town houses. c.1835, altered.Red brick in Flemish bond (tuck-pointed at No.53), with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth halls-adjoining plan (no through-lobby), each house single-fronted, with coupled back extensions. Two storeys over cellars, 2+2 bays; with a 1st floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorways, coupled in the centre, have round-headed architraves with set-in Tuscan quarter columns, plain lintels, and semicircular fanlights with convex moulded surrounds, panelled door at No.54 (altered at No.53). Each house has one window at ground floor and 2 above, those at No.54 sashed without glazing bars (altered glazing at No.53), all with raised sills and wedge lintels; cellar windows with rectangular lintels, protected by gratings. Gable chimneys. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected. The item is part of a formerly complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class town houses in this street.

Listing NGR: SD5419728943

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
392012
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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