Reg No
50010204
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
316203, 234777
Date Recorded
08/11/2011
Date Updated
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Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1840, having recent timber shopfront to ground floor. Currently vacant. Flat roof with shared red brick chimneystacks behind brown brick parapet wall having masonry coping. Shared rainwater goods to west of façade, with cast-iron square-profile hopper and replacement downpipe. Brown brick wall laid in Flemish bond over shopfront. Gauged brick square-headed window openings with masonry sills, painted patent reveals and single-pane timber sliding sash windows. Recent timber shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and overlight forming entrance to upper floors.
This buildings modest size and scale are similar to the surrounding buildings, maintaining the rhythm of fenestration and parapet line, making a quiet contribution to the sense of uniformity of this street. It forms part of a terrace lining the north side of Talbot Street, which was laid out in the 1840s.