Survey Data
Reg No
20866158
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1910 - 1930
Coordinates
166385, 71177
Date Recorded
19/04/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1920, having full-height canted bay surmounted by projecting gablet, single-storey canted bay and single-pitch porch to front (north) elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to first floor with red brick to ground floor laid in English garden wall bond. Square-headed window openings having render sills and six-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Paired camber-headed window openings to east bay. Segmental-headed door opening with timber panelled door having circular central light, sidelights and overlight all having leaded stained glass windows. Timber columns supporting porch. Gabled-fronted single-cell garage to front of site with pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered walls and double-leaf timber battened doors. Rendered boundary wall and timber battened gates to front of site.
Appraisal
The canted bays and gablets add rhythm and interest to the façade, while the unusual timber porch provides a decorative focus. The house retains its original timber door with stained glass side lights and overlight, as well as multiple pane over single pane timber sash windows typical of the early twentieth century. It occupies a prominent site in the streetscape, at the junction of Donovan Road and College Road. This house follows a similar design as Edencurragh on Perrott Avenue, both were apparently designed by a man called Millener.