Survey Data
Reg No
50020516
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
Building misc
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
316602, 233970
Date Recorded
18/03/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey over basement former house, built c.1830, now in use as part of college. M-profile pitched slate roof concealed behind ashlar granite ashlar parapet, brown brick chimneystacks having clay pots. Brown brick, laid in Flemish bond to upper walls, rusticated render to ground floor to front (east) elevation, rusticated granite quoins to north of façade. Square-headed window openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with raised render reveals and granite sills, continuous painted masonry sill course to first floor window openings. Round-headed door opening having moulded masonry surround, painted masonry doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with fluted curved console brackets to entablature, timber panelled door and plain fanlight. Recent steel cover to basement light, limestone paviers and granite kerb stones to front. Street fronted to north end of Westland Row.
Appraisal
Westland Row was opened in 1773 and widened in 1792. It retains a number of late Georgian and early Victorian houses, creating an important and architecturally varied historic streetscape. The soft brown bricks to the upper walls form a pleasing contrast with the granite quoins on the north end of the facade, and the strong rustication to the ground floor. Built originally as domestic residences, the houses on this street were soon adapted to include commercial businesses. This house was occupied by Mark Allen, a Lithographic printer, in the 1860s.