Survey Data
Reg No
50010094
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Office
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
316747, 235209
Date Recorded
05/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c.1840, with two-storey shared rear return. Now in commercial office use, built as one of ten similar houses. M-profile artificial slate roof, hipped to south of rear pitch with two rebuilt brick chimneystacks to north party wall having terracotta and clay pots. Roof set behind rebuilt parapet wall with cement coping. Yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond on painted granite plinth course above rendered basement with rusticated soldier quoins to north end. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with architrave surrounds, painted granite sills and replacement single-pane timber sliding sash windows, ground floor window having hood cornice. Replacement uPVC windows to rear elevation with early multi-pane timber sliding sash windows to return and iron grilles. Gauged brick round-headed door opening with painted masonry Doric doorcase. Replacement timber door flanked by engaged Doric columns on plinth bases supporting replacement lintel cornice and original peacock fanlight over. Door opens onto shared granite platform with cast-iron bootscraper and three granite steps bridging basement, further granite platform with cast-iron coal hole cover and further two granite steps to street. Platform and front garden enclosed by decorative wrought and cast-iron railings on painted granite plinth course to garden. Rear garden enclosed by rubble stone wall.
Appraisal
This house stands on the former coastal route was formerly known as 'The Strand' renamed after Viscount Amiens the first Earl of Aldborough of nearby Aldborough House. It forms part of a terrace of ten paired two-storey houses, book-ended by modern commercial buildings. Built as a modest townhouse, the building is now used as offices but it retains its early domestic scale and appearance on a streetscape now dominated by over-scaled speculative developments. The house contributes to the retention of part of the street's nineteenth-century character.