Survey Data
Reg No
50080512
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
Hostel
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
314998, 234111
Date Recorded
28/10/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey former house, built c.1820, having recent shopfront to front (north) elevation. Now in use as hostel. Pitched roof hidden behind raised rendered parapet with granite coping and rendered chimneystacks, flat roof to rear block. Rendered walls having rusticated quoins to east of facade. Square-headed window openings to upper floors, with raised render reveals, granite sills and six-over-six pane timber sash windows, having continuous sill course to first floor windows. Recent timber shopfront to ground floor.
Appraisal
This building shares a fenestration arrangement and parapet height with its neighbouring houses, creating a uniformity in the streetscape. Timber sash windows are retained, lending a patina of age to the façade. Thom’s Directory suggests it declined in value from the nineteenth into the early twentieth century, being a residence valued at £63 in 1853 and tenements, valued at £42 in 1909.