Survey Data
Reg No
50920020
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Henry Martin
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
315907, 233606
Date Recorded
22/09/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay four-storey former townhouse, built c. 1820, as pair with No. 48 (50920019). Now in use as shop with recent shopfront inserted to ground floor. M-profile slate roof hidden behind parapet wall with two brick chimneystacks to north party wall having octagonal clay pots. Rendered parapet wall and crown cornice with granite blocking course. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with cement pointing. Buff brick to rear elevation laid in English garden wall bond. Gauged brick square-headed window openings with patent reveals, granite sills and traces of former pedimented window surrounds to first floor. Historic six-over-six timber sash windows to first and second floors with convex horns and much historic glass, recent uPVC sash windows to top floor. Historic three-over-three pane timber sash windows to third floor rear with metal grille affixed. Single iron planter to the first floor (west). Recent glazed timber shopfront spanning ground floor surmounted by lead-lined cornice. Forming part of continuous terrace of commercial buildings lining east side of Grafton Street.
Appraisal
This former townhouse retains its original residential plot size, fenestration pattern and historic windows, and forms part of a group of four similarly scaled buildings at the south-eastern end of Grafton Street. It is part of a historic streetscape which clearly depicts the earlier character of the street, before Victorian and twentieth-century buildings were inserted.