14,16,18, GREAT AVENHAM STREET
14,16,18, GREAT AVENHAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217959
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 14,16,18, GREAT AVENHAM STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 14,16,18, GREAT AVENHAM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217959
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 14,16,18, GREAT AVENHAM STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14,16,18, GREAT AVENHAM 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 14,16,18, 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 54144 28944
Details
PRESTON
SD5428NW GREAT AVENHAM STREET 941-1/14/147 (South West side) Nos.14, 16 AND 18
GV II
Row of 3 small town houses. c.1825, altered. Red brick in 4+1 English garden wall bond (but with stretchers alternating in the header course), with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with through-lobby between Nos.16 and 18 (no back extensions: see interior below). Two storeys over basements, each house 2 bays, with 1st-floor sill-band and moulded gutter cornice; rendered plinth to No.14; vertical joint between No.14 and 16 (not corresponding to similar joint at rear, which is between Nos.16 and 18). No.14 has the doorway to the left, Nos.16 and 18 have doorways forming a triplet in the centre with the lobby door between, all up 3 steps; each has a round-headed architrave with raised moulded rim and moulded imposts, and a semi-circular fanlight, that at No.16 with original radiating metal tracery, and Nos.16 and 18 with restored 6-panel doors; and the lobby doorway between these has a plain lintel and board door. Each has one window at ground floor and 2 above, (No.14 with altered glazing, No.16 with restored 16-pane sashes, No.18 with a 4-pane sash at ground floor and sashes without glazing bars above); all with raised sills and wedge lintels. Basement windows with wedge lintels, No.16 with grating. Rear: each has back doors to both the ground floor and the basement, with steps protected by bar railings (altered at No.14), and a tall stair-window. INTERIOR: No.14 has a 2-room basement with the former kitchen at the rear and the former wash-house at the front (both altered): a substitution of full service basements for back extensions which is unusual in this town. Item is 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: SD5414528938
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392031
- 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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