Survey Data
Reg No
50080832
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1870 - 1880
Coordinates
314706, 232630
Date Recorded
09/12/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Terrace of five two- and three-bay two-storey houses, built c.1875, having recessed entrances, and shopfronts to both elevations of end houses. Pitched slate and artificial slate roofs having parapet with cut granite capping, sawtooth eaves cornice and red brick chimneystacks having sawtooth cornices and clay chimney pots. Raised barges with rendered chimneystack to east gable. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to front elevations, rendered walls to gables. Segmental-headed window openings having chamfered brick reveals, cut granite sills, two-over-two timber sash windows and some uPVC windows. Round-headed porch openings having chamfered red brick reveals and some recent timber and uPVC doors. Recessed square-headed door openings with timber panelled doors, overlights, sidelights, and some replacement uPVC doors. Front gardens enclosed by cast-iron railings on cut granite plinths, with matching cast-iron pedestrian gates. Recent shopfronts to numbers 176 and 184.
Appraisal
This terrace retains much of its Victorian form and character, and fabric including cast-iron railings, timber sash windows and timber doorcases. The repetition of the same house type gives a pleasing coherence to the streetscape. Subtle brick detailing adds decorative interest to the front elevations. Historic maps show the end houses without front gardens, suggesting their early commercial use at ground floors level. Front garden boundaries remain intact to the centre of the terrace, maintaining the early suburban character of the streetscape. The South Circular Road was laid out in the late eighteenth century to relieve congestion to 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.