Survey Data
Reg No
50080338
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1720 - 1760
Coordinates
314502, 233926
Date Recorded
21/05/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey house, built c.1740, having recent shopfront to ground floor. Hipped roof hidden behind parapet to front (south) having granite capping, and rendered cruciform shared chimneystack. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond to front, rendered walls to rear. Square-headed window openings having granite sills and two-over-two pane timber sash windows. Recent timber door and overlight to upper floor entrance, shopfront shuttered.
Appraisal
This terraced house retains much of its early form and character, with a steeply pitched roof and large central cruciform chimneystack, shared with neighbour to east, which are both typical early eighteenth century features. Like many of the neighbouring houses, the ground floor subsequently had a commercial use. Thomas Street was laid out by the early eighteenth century as an important thoroughfare linking the city with the west.