Avenham Terrace Preston, England

Listed Building Data

Avenham Terrace has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1292278
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
20 December 1991
Name
AVENHAM TERRACE
Location
AVENHAM TERRACE, 1, FRENCHWOOD STREET
District
Preston
County
Lancashire
Grid Reference
SD 54275 28889
Easting
354274.5150
Northing
428889.4064

Listed Building Description

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PRESTON

SD5428NW FRENCHWOOD STREET 941-1/14/133 (North East side) No.1 Avenham Terrace

GV II

Town house. 1850s, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and concrete-tile roof. Double-depth plan on corner site, with a long back extension. Two storeys over cellar, with an ashlar plinth, 1st floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded cornice (all carried round); one bay to Frenchwood Street, the doorway to the right, up 3 steps with nosings, with a doorcase of engaged Ionic columns with entablature, cornice and blocking course, hollow-moulded surround and altered door; one window on each floor (both with altered glazing), with raised sills and a wedge lintel at ground floor. Hipped roof now lacking chimneys. Left return wall, 2 bays with similar fenestration; and continued to rear a lower back extension with 2 windows at ground floor and 3 above. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected. The item is part of an early Victorian extension, in harmonious form, to a formerly complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class town houses in this street.

Listing NGR: SD5415129030