Survey Data

Reg No

50010056


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Artistic


Original Use

House


In Use As

House


Date

1820 - 1840


Coordinates

316823, 235232


Date Recorded

18/10/2011


Date Updated

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Description

End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house over raised basement, built c.1830, built as one of pair. M-profile slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, hipped to south, behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping. Stepped rendered brick chimneystacks with clay pots rising from the north gable. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond on granite plinth course over rendered basement walls. Smooth cement rendered walls to north gable, yellow brick walls to rear elevation. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted granite sills and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Gauged brick elliptical-headed door opening with deep moulded surround and painted masonry Ionic doorcase. Replacement timber door flanked by engaged Ionic columns on plinth bases supporting panelled lintel cornice and plain glazed fanlight. Door opens onto extended granite platform with four concrete steps, shared with adjoining house. Platform divided by replacement steel railing and enclosed to north by original wrought-iron railings. Front garden enclosed to street by replacement steel railing set on granite plinth wall and steel pedestrian gates.

Appraisal

This house is one of a pair of houses that stand as the tallest structures on the terrace, abutted by a single-storey villa to the north. It dates from the late Georgian period and built as a result of the expansion of the city, which was brought about by the opening of the North Circular Road and the arrival of the railway. The house has had most external fabric replaced but retains its overall composition. The pair dominates the terrace and the streetscape and exhibist an early residential aspect that continues to form the character of the street.