1-6, AVENHAM COLONNADE
1-6, AVENHAM COLONNADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279840
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 1-6, AVENHAM COLONNADE
- Statutory Address:
- 1-6, AVENHAM COLONNADE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279840
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 1-6, AVENHAM COLONNADE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-6, AVENHAM COLONNADE
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:
- 1-6, AVENHAM COLONNADE
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 54030 28865
Details
PRESTON
SD5428NW AVENHAM COLONNADE 941-1/14/1 (West side) 27/09/79 Nos.1-6 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: AVENHAM COLONNADE Nos.1-6, 6A, B AND C (Consecutive))
GV II
Terrace of 6 town houses (No.4 now 2 flats). c.1830, altered in later C19. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth split-level plan, each house single-fronted. Two storeys over basements (3-storey rear), each house of 2 bays; sandstone plinth, broad 1st floor sillband, plain frieze, prominent moulded cornice with blocking course. Doorways to the right, all round-headed and set in broad banded sandstone architraves which have cornices at the level of the 1st floor band, panelled jambs with imposts, and doors set progressively lower (site sloping down form Nos.1 to 6) so that fanlights lengthen from semicircular to stilted (all without glazing bars); basement and ground floor windows are all segmental-headed and have moulded architraves, 1st floor windows have wedge lintels, and most of these windows are sashed without glazing bars except No.2 which has top-hung casements imitating sashes. Chimneys on front slope of roof; skylights to Nos.2, 3, and 6; small dormers to Nos.4 and 5. Rear: Nos.2, 5, and 6 have added canted bays (No.2 three-storeyed, others 2-storeyed); rear wall of No.4 recently rebuilt; most windows with altered glazing, but one 20-pane sash at basement of No.3. INTERIOR: unusual split-level design with stone steps up to raised rear ground-floor level and down to basement. History: ground floor of front formerly protected by continuous colonnade with flat roof. (Hardwick C: History of the Borough of Preston and its Environs: Preston: 1857-: P.436 (PICTURE); Myres JJ: Map of the Town of Preston: Preston: 1836-).
Listing NGR: SD5401728872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391872
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hardwick, C, History of the Borough of Preston and its Environs, (1857), 436
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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