42 and 43, Frenchwood Street
42 AND 43, FRENCHWOOD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279827
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 42 and 43, Frenchwood Street
- Statutory Address:
- 42 AND 43, FRENCHWOOD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279827
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 42 and 43, Frenchwood Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42 AND 43, 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:
- 42 AND 43, 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 54236 28900
Details
SD5428NW
941-1/14/124
PRESTON
FRENCHWOOD STREET(South West side)
Nos. 42 and 43
GV
II
Pair of small town houses. c.1850, altered. Red brick in 4 + 1English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings, slate roof to No.42, concrete tile to No.43. 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 plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorway, forming a triplet in the centre with the lobby door between, up 3 and 2 steps respectively, have architraves of a hybrid type, with jambs which have set-in Tuscan quarter-columns, panelled imposts, a plain frieze and shallow cornice, and 5-panel doors with overlights; and between the steps a lobby doorway with a plain lintel. Each house has one window at ground floor and 2 above, all with raised sills and those at ground floor with wedge lintels, and No.42 has a small inserted window to the right at 1st floor; cellar windows blocked. End-wall chimneys on both slopes.
Rear and INTERIORS not inspected. The item is a relatively late addition to a formerly complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class town houses in this street.
Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SD5423528899
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392008
- 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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