23,25, GREAT AVENHAM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207289
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:: 23,25, GREAT AVENHAM STREET
Statutory Address:: 23,25, GREAT AVENHAM STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207289
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:: 23,25, GREAT AVENHAM STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 23,25, GREAT AVENHAM STREET

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 23,25, GREAT AVENHAM 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 54172 28942

Details

PRESTON

SD5428NW GREAT AVENHAM STREET 941-1/14/150 (South West side) 18/02/91 Nos.23 AND 25

GV II

Pair of small town houses. c.1825, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with back extensions and central through-lobby. Two storeys over cellars, 3-window range, symmetrical, with plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorways, forming a triplet in the centre with the lobby door between, each up 2 steps, are round-headed with gauged brick voussoirs, set-in Tuscan quarter-columns, and semi-circular fanlights with radiating glazing bars; the lobby doorway has a plain lintel and board door. One window each at ground floor and 3 above (that in the centre belonging to No.23), sashed without glazing bars at ground floor of No.23 but otherwise all with altered glazing, and all with raised sills and wedge lintels; cellar windows with wedge lintels, protected by gratings. Gable chimneys. 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: SD5417128945

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Legacy System number:: 392034
Legacy System:: LBS

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