Survey Data
Reg No
50080829
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1880 - 1890
Coordinates
314652, 232603
Date Recorded
09/12/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached pair of three-bay single-storey houses, built c.1885, having recessed entrances and extensions to rear. Number 186 now in use as a café. M-profile pitched slate roofs having red brick chimneystacks, parapet with cut granite capping and sawtooth polychrome brick eaves cornice. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to front elevation having yellow brick quoins to east end. Rendered walls to east gable. Segmental-headed window openings having bull-nosed red brick reveals, cut granite sills, timber sash window to number 186, and replacement uPVC windows to number 188. Round-headed openings to porch having chamfered yellow brick voussoirs and bull-nosed red brick reveals. Recessed square-headed door openings with overlight, sidelights and timber panelled door to number 188. and recent half-glazed timber doors to number 186. Shopfront window to number 186. Front garden of number 188 enclosed by cast-iron railings on cut granite plinths with matching cast-iron pedestrian gate. Tiled path.
Appraisal
Despite some alterations to accommodate use as a cafe, this pair retains much of their Victorian form and character, and fabric including a doorcase and cast-iron railings. Brick detailing adds subtle decoration to the front elevation. The streets in this area were built by private developers in groups of as few as two or three, leading to a lively and attractive variation in decorative finishes of houses constructed in similar materials. The South Circular Road was laid out in the late eighteenth century to relieve congestion in the city centre and improve access. This portion of the road was not fully developed until a century later when large tracts of land became available following the sale of the Greenville demesne in the 1870s.