55,56, FRENCHWOOD STREET
55,56, FRENCHWOOD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279789
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 55,56, FRENCHWOOD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 55,56, FRENCHWOOD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279789
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 55,56, FRENCHWOOD STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 55,56, 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.
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:
- 55,56, 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 54187 28955
Details
PRESTON
SD5428NW FRENCHWOOD STREET 941-1/14/129 (South West side) Nos.55 AND 56
GV II
Pair of small town houses. c.1835, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond (but No.56 rebuilt) with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with coupled back extensions and a through-lobby in the centre. Two storeys over cellars, 2+ 2 bays; with a 1st floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorways, forming a triplet in the centre with the lobby door between, both up 2 altered steps, have round-headed architraves with set-in Tuscan quarter columns, plain lintels, and semicircular fanlights with convex moulded surrounds, and replacement panelled doors; and the lobby doorway has a plain lintel and board door. Each house has one window at ground floor and 2 above, those at No.55 sashed without glazing bars (replacements) and those at No.56 altered, all with raised sills and wedge lintels; cellar windows with wedge lintels, protected by grating at No.55 and iron plate at No.56. 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: SD5419028953
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392013
- 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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