Description

PRESTON

SD5429SW CHADDOCK STREET 941-1/12/54 (North East side) No.20

GV II

Small town house. c.1840, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth single-fronted plan with back extension to the right and through-lobby to the left. Two storeys over cellars, a wide 2-window facade with 1st-floor sill-band, plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The doorway to the right, up one step, is elliptical-arched with gauged brick voussoirs and has a set-in doorcase of engaged Tuscan columns with a moulded frieze, and an elliptical fanlight (door and fanlight altered); the lobby doorway at the left end has a chamfered stone surround and board door. One window at ground floor and 2 above, all with with raised sills and wedge lintels (glazing altered); cellar window with wedge lintel and grating. Ridge chimney to left (coupled with that of No.19). Rear and INTERIOR not inspected. Forms part of an almost complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class houses in this street.

Listing NGR: SD5405829007

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair