Survey Data
Reg No
50010092
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Bank/financial institution
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
316753, 235219
Date Recorded
06/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Attached end-of-terrace two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c.1840, with two-storey shared rear return. Now in commercial use together with No.75, built as one of ten similar houses. M-profile natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and two stepped brick chimneystacks abutting adjoining building to north with terracotta pots. Roof set behind rendered parapet wall with cement coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to north end. Rendered walls on painted granite plinth course above ruled-and-lined rendered basement with rusticated soldier quoins to north end. Square-headed window openings with architrave surrounds, painted granite sills and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Iron grille to basement window. Round-headed door opening with replacement door and doorcase. Door opens onto shared granite platform, three granite steps, a further granite platform with cast-iron coal hole cover and further step to street. Platform and front garden enclosed by decorative wrought and cast-iron railings on painted granite plinth course with replacement steel railing enclosing basement area to gravel garden. Rear garden enclosed by rubble stone wall.
Appraisal
Formerly a coastal route known as 'The Strand', the street was renamed after Viscount Amiens the first Earl of Aldborough of nearby Aldborough House. This building forms the end of a terrace of ten paired two-storey houses, abutted to either end by modern masonry buildings. Formerly a modest townhouse, the building is now used as a financial institution. It retains, however, its early domestic appearance on a street somewhat marred by insensitive speculative developments, and contributes significantly to the street’s nineteenth-century architectural character.