Survey Data
Reg No
50060604
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1800 - 1820
Coordinates
315522, 235324
Date Recorded
03/09/2014
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey former house, built c.1810, as pair with building to south. Replacement shopfront to ground floor. Upper floors contain flats. Pair of pitched slate roofs (artificial to rear), with flat expanse to centre and hipped to south, rooflights to rear pitch. Solid parapets with painted coping to east, stone to south. Generally angled terracotta ridges and hip tiles, with grey replacements to rear. Replacement metal rainwater goods. Pair of cruciform red brick chimneystacks to north party wall, with clay pots (some replacement). Walling is smooth rendered and painted, with raised stepped quoins to outer east edges, and some painted metal tie-bars. Square-headed window openings, two-storey bow window to rear, having generally stone sills but some concrete replacements and generally six-over-six pane replacement timber sashes, with some replacement uPVC to rear. Shopfront has timber fascia, hand-painted signage, masonry stall-riser with modern timber windows over, and recessed double-leaf timber panelled and glazed door with over-light. Door serving upper floors is timber panelled replacement with over-light. Shop protected behind metal grilles. Street-fronted on Dorset Street Upper, abutted by terraces of similar scale and proportions. Shared yard to rear.
Appraisal
Built as one of a pair with 50060603, this Georgian townhouse forms part of a larger terrace, largely comprising buildings of similar date and style. Although original windows and roofing slates have been lost and the shopfront replaced with a modern insertion, the regular proportions, scale and restrained detailing are typical of urban domestic architecture from the period, while the bow end to the rear adds further interest.