26 and 28 Great Avenham Street
26 AND 28, GREAT AVENHAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217984
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 26 and 28 Great Avenham Street
- Statutory Address:
- 26 AND 28, GREAT AVENHAM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217984
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 26 and 28 Great Avenham Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26 AND 28, 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:
- 26 AND 28, 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 54167 28918
Details
SD5428NW
941-1/14/151
PRESTON
GREAT AVENHAM STREET (South West side)
Nos.26 AND 28
GV
II
Pair of town houses. c.1830, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with back extensions, and through-lobby to left of No.26. Three storeys over cellars, 1+2 bays, with 1st-floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded cornice. The doorways, both to the left, differ in detail: No.26, up 2 steps, has a doorcase of engaged Tuscan columns with square abaci, plain frieze and moulded cornice, and a segmental fanlight; No.28 has a round-headed architrave with set-in Tuscan quarter columns, and semi-circular fanlight with hollow-moulded surround; the lobby doorway to the left of No.26 has a wedge lintel and board door. No.26 has one window at ground floor and 2 on each floor above, No.28 has one window on each floor, all these windows sashed without glazing bars and all with raised sills and wedge lintels; cellar windows with wedge lintels, No.26 with grating and No.28 blocked. Lead downspout at junction descending only to ground-floor level where it enters the wall above the lobby door. 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: SD5416328919
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392035
- 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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